Steve Collar, SES president and chief executive, is shown talking to Rodolphe Belmer, Eutelsat chief executive, during a satellite operators panel at the World Satellite Business Week conference in Paris in September 2018. Credit: SpaceNews/Brian Berger

SES wants fleet of identical, interchangeable satellites

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Instead of buying individual satellites tailored for a specific job at a precise orbital location, fleet operator SES wants homogenous satellites with digitally processed payloads it can reconfigure in orbit to perform any job.

Commercial World Satellite Business Week 2018 Martin HalliwellO3BSESSteve Collar