PARIS — Satellite fleet operator SES plans to revamp the way it purchases its future medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellites, moving toward an iterative design allowing regular technology refresh and avoiding the capex peaks of conventional procurement, SES Chief Executive Adel Al-Saleh said.
In a Sept. 16 address here to World Space Business Week (WSBW), organized by Novaspace, Al-Saleh said the new procurement will develop what SES is calling its MeoSphere network. The MeoSphere will extend SES’s current MEO constellation, in an 8,000-km . . .
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