ARTICLE · 12 OCTOBER 2015

Space Business Review September 2015

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AVANTI, SES ENTER INTO SPECTRUM DEAL

On September 18, Avanti Communications Group plc (Avanti) and SES S.A. (SES) announced that they have entered into a frequency coordination agreement whereby Avanti will transfer to SES certain Ka-band spectrum rights valued at $25.1m and lease from SES a steerable Ka-band beam on the Astra 5B satellite operating at 31.5°E. Avanti will use the leased beam to serve markets intended to be covered by the Hylas 3 satellite, which is scheduled to be launched no earlier than 2017.

BLUE ORIGIN ANNOUNCES FACILITIES

On September 15, Blue Origin, LLC announced that it will establish a manufacturing facility and launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida for its planned reusable orbital launch vehicle. The launch vehicle has not yet been assigned an official name publicly but is expected to begin launching both satellites and astronauts by 2020.

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Space Business Review September 2015

AVANTI, SES ENTER INTO SPECTRUM DEAL

BLUE ORIGIN ANNOUNCES FACILITIES

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