SES-21 goes operational to serve United States
SES-21 will enable SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast services to millions of American homes and provide critical network communications services.
SES-21 will enable SES to continue delivering C-band broadcast services to millions of American homes and provide critical network communications services.
The approval for Lynk Tower satellites 1 through 10 came with conditions that limit the startups use of radio frequencies to avoid interfering with other operators.
SES-22 is the first to launch six geostationary satellites that SES ordered to migrate broadcast customers into a narrower swath of C-band.
The mission is expected to complete the company's initial research and development programme and facilitate integration testing with mobile network operators around the world.
BlueWalker 3 is a test satellite designed to communicate directly with unmodified cell phones to test AST SpaceMobiles technology and service model.
SpaceX filed the modification request a year ago, asking to move upcoming satellites to an altitude of under 570 km.