{"id":57901,"date":"2025-08-04T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57901\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:02:08","slug":"satellite-firm-ses-wins-90-million-contract-to-support-u-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57901\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite firm SES wins $90 million contract to support U.S. Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reuters) -SES has won an $89.6 million contract to provide its commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services to the U.S. army, the European satellite company said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">Its SES Space &amp; Defense subsidiary has been awarded the five-year deal, the company said. It will supply its strategic transport and communications network to Combat Service Support, Department of Defense (DoD) programmes, as well as additional U.S. government agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In May this year, the European group was selected by the U.S. DoD to deliver space-based network for improved data transmission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In July, it announced a partnership with the government of Luxembourg to develop and launch a new defence satellite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Mateusz Rabiega in Gdansk; Editing by Matt Scuffham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -SES has won an $89.6 million contract to provide its commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[43700,10830,43702,79,43701,193,14741],"class_list":["post-57901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-combat-service-support","tag-department-of-defense","tag-european-satellite","tag-science","tag-ses","tag-space","tag-u-s-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}