{"id":118496,"date":"2025-08-04T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118496\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:31:12","slug":"satellite-firm-ses-wins-90-million-contract-to-support-u-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118496\/","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":3,"featured_media":118497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[74044,20272,74045,159,70365,783,41360,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-118496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-combat-service-support","9":"tag-department-of-defense","10":"tag-european-satellite","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-ses","13":"tag-space","14":"tag-u-s-army","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114971219452570165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}