List of SES satellites
NSS fleet
This fleet came from the acquisition of New Skies Satellites in 2005, which itself had inherited 5 satellites from Intelsat in 1998.

List of SES satellites

Section Title: NSS fleet
Table Section Text: This fleet came from the acquisition of New Skies Satellites in 2005, which itself had inherited 5 satellites from Intelsat in 1998.

Satellite	Location	Manufacturer	Model	Coverage	Launch date	Launch vehicle	Comments

Active fleet[edit]

NSS-6	95° E	Lockheed Martin	A2100AX	50 Ku-band transponders to cover Asia, Australia, Africa, Middle East and 12 Ka-band super high gain uplink beams DTH services to Asia, especially India.	December 17, 2002	Ariane 44L

NSS-7	20° W	Lockheed Martin	A2100AX	36 C-Band and 36 Ku-band transponders Video broadcast covering South America and Africa	16 April 2002	Ariane 44L	Originally at 22° W

NSS-9	177° W	Orbital Sciences	STAR-2.	44 C-band transponders Pacific Ocean: transcontinental video, voice and Internet; local service to Pacific islands	12 February 2009	Ariane 5 flight V-187

NSS-10	37.5° W	Thales Alenia Space	Spacebus 4000C3	49 C-band transponders Americas, Europe and Africa; telecom and VSAT operators.	3 February 2005	Proton-M/Briz-M	Formerly known as AMC-12/Astra 4A

NSS-11	108.2° E	Lockheed Martin	A2100AX	28 Ku-band transponders DTH voice, video and data in India, China and Philippines.	1 October 2000	Proton-K/DM-2M	Formerly known as AAP-1, GE 1A or WorldSat-1

NSS-12	57° E	Space Systems/Loral	FS-1300	40 C-band and 48 Ku-band active high-power transponders Mobile backhaul services over the Middle East and Europe, Central and South Asia and East Africa.	29 October 2009	Ariane 5 ECA

NSS-806	47° W	Lockheed Martin	AS-7000	28 C-band and 3 Ku-band transponders to cover Latin America, Iberian peninsula, Canary Islands, Western Europe and much of Eastern Europe.	27 February 1998	Atlas II AS	Launched as Intelsat 806 at 40.5° W. Replaced by SES-6 in June 2013 and moved to 47° W European beams retired, remaining C-band Hemi beam and Ku-band Spot beam cover South America only

Retired satellites[edit]

NSS-5	50.5° E	Lockheed Martin	AS-7000	38 C-band, 12 Ku-band Pacific Ocean region, shared capacity with Intelsat.	September 23, 1997	Ariane 42L	Formerly known as NSS-803, launched as Intelsat 803. Moved from 183° E to 57° E to cover NSS-703's service area until NSS-12 launched Q3, 2009.

NSS-513	177°W	Ford Aerospace	18 May 1988	Ariane 2	Launched as Intelsat 513. Decommissioned

NSS-703	57° E, then 47° W	Space Systems/Loral	LS-1300	6 October 1994	Atlas II AS	Traffic moved to NSS-12 in January 2010, satellite retired in October 2014

NSS-K	21.5° W, then 183° E	Lockheed Martin	AS-5000	9 June 1992	Atlas IIA	Decommissioned

Launch failures[edit]

NSS-8	Planned: 57° E	Boeing	BSS-702	30 January 2007	Zenit 3SL	Rocket exploded on pad

Sentence(s)

NSS-12 was launched at 57° E in 2009.

final_sentence: NSS-12 was launched at 57° E in 2009.