Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
SES Global has lost its latest News Skies satellite (NSS-8), the planned centrepiece of its Indian Ocean network, following a failed launch from the Sea Launch floating platform aboard a Russian Zenit rocket.
No other details are available at this time. Sea Launch described the failure only as "an anomaly" and said all personnel on the launch platform were safe.
The 5,920 kg spacecraft, built by Boeing was to have been launched into a 57 degrees East Longitude geostationary orbit. I was equipped with 56 C-band and 36 Ku-band transponders and designed to replace the existing NSS-703 satellite as "the centrepiece of New Skies' strategic Indian Ocean contribution to SES's global communications network," according to the company.
"The successful launch of NSS-8 will subsequently also allow for NSS-703 to be re-deployed to the Atlantic Ocean region at 340° East, further boosting the global coverage and connectivity provided by the 40 plus strong fleet of satellites in the SES Group," the company announced shortly before the failed launch.
NSS-8 was to have supported a wide range of functions, including corporate communications, government and military operations, Broadband Internet services and broadcast applications. It would have provided coverage to two-thirds of the world's population, serving countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Asia over a 15-year lifespan.
SES Global said that, as a result of the failure, NSS-703 would now stay at 57° East and would serve existing customers until at least 2009.
The company has already initiated the construction of NSS-9 for launch in 2009 into the Pacific Ocean Region. NSS-9 is intended to free up NSS-5 and NSS-5 will now be relocated to 57° to replace NSS-703. "The NSS-8 launch failure is thus not expected to have an impact on existing customers or revenues," the company said.
However it did not say what would be the impact of diverting NSS-5 from its original redeployment location, or the impact of it having lesser capabilities than the lost NSS-8.
David Bass
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