Boeing has delivered the first two O3b mPOWER satellites for SES ahead of launch, Boeing announced Monday. The satellites are now in Florida being prepared for launch. SpaceX is set to launch the satellites no earlier than Dec. 15, SES confirmed to Via Satellite on Monday. The satellites are based on Boeing’s 702 platform. They…

French aerospace lab ONERA ordered two nanosat platforms from NanoAvionics for its FlyLab mission. ONERA — the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales — is self-financing the mission in order to develop and launch its own nanosat missions to test new technologies in orbit.  NanoAvionics will build the buses based on its 8U and 6U nanosat…

Eutelsat has tasked Thales Alenia Space to build its next-generation highly flexible, software-defined satellite (SDS) called Flexsat. The two companies announced the deal Dec. 1. The new Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite will expand Eutelsat’s in-orbit assets providing more than 100 Gbps of incremental capacity over the Americas to support what Eutelsat sees as a surging…

SiriusXM ordered two more satellites from Maxar Technologies, SXM-11 and -12, the companies announced Tuesday. Maxar is now developing four Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites for SiriusXM, including SXM-9 and -10 ordered in 2021.  SXM-11 and -12 will be twin high-powered digital audio radio satellites, built on Maxar’s 1300-class platform at the company’s manufacturing facilities in…