{"id":6665,"date":"2024-08-01T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-space-defense-secures-46-million-us-air-force-contract-for-airborne-satellite-services\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:37:12","slug":"ses-space-defense-secures-46-million-us-air-force-contract-for-airborne-satellite-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-space-defense-secures-46-million-us-air-force-contract-for-airborne-satellite-services\/","title":{"rendered":"SES Space & Defense Secures $46 Million US Air Force Contract for Airborne Satellite Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SES<\/p>\n

SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a multi-year contract worth USD 46.8 million by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC) to provide Geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellite services in support of the ACC remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training and testing program.<\/p>\n

SES Space & Defense will use SES\u2019s GEO high-throughput satellite (HTS) fleet to provide ground-to-air and air-to-ground transmissions coverage over the continental United States (CONUS), Hawaii, Alaska, and the Pacific Ocean for airborne operations. In addition, SES Space & Defense\u2019s Global Network Operations Center (GNOSC) will provide network management and monitoring support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is SES Space & Defense\u2019s third contract iteration for the remotely piloted aircraft training and testing program, and it continues to be a great privilege serving the U.S. Air Forces\u2019 Air Combat Command\u2019s mission,\u201d said SES Space & Defense President & CEO David Fields.<\/strong> \u201cWe look forward to continue delivering superior performance leveraging our GEO HTS in support of this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has been awarded a multi-year contract worth USD 46.8 million by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Air Combat Command (ACC) to provide Geostationary (GEO) Ku-band satellite services in support of the ACC remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) training and testing program. SES Space & Defense will use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,42,20],"class_list":["post-6665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satcom","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}