The Hague, November 19^th, 2008 – SES NEW SKIES, an SES Company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announces that Arrowhead Global Solutions has concluded a multi-year agreement for 90MHz of capacity on the upcoming NSS-12 satellite. Arrowhead will use the capacity to support U.S. government needs over the Middle East and East Africa.

As CapRock Communications’ government and military division, Arrowhead supports the mission-critical needs of more than thirty government agency customers and thousands of associated end-users.  Arrowhead has provided the DoD marketplace with innovative and rapidly deployable commercial bandwidth solutions for close to twenty years.

SES NEW SKIES’ NSS-12 satellite is scheduled for operational service in the second half of 2009 and will replace the existing NSS-703 satellite at the orbital location of 57 degrees East.

“We are extremely excited about using NEW SKIES’ NSS-12 satellite to help meet the needs of our government clients,” said Arrowhead Vice President Operations Division, David Cavossa. “This capacity will ideally serve Arrowhead’s legacy customers in regions of Southwest Asia and Africa.” 

“Arrowhead has been a longstanding customer of SES NEW SKIES and we value this new, multi-year business on NSS-12, one of our new state-of-the-art spacecraft which by next year is poised to be one of the most powerful and versatile in the entire SES fleet,” said SES NEW SKIES, Vice President North American Sales, Andrew Ruszkowski.  “The fact that Arrowhead and other longstanding customers contract significant amounts of capacity on NSS-12 ahead of its launch clearly demonstrates that this powerful new satellite is very much in demand.”

About NSS-12

The powerful, state-of-the-art NSS-12 satellite is under construction with Space Systems/Loral and will be available for commercial service in 2009, replacing NSS-703 at 57 degrees East. NSS-12 will cover virtually the entire Eastern Hemisphere and will bring increased capacity and transmission power to a key orbital location at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. The spacecraft features 40 C-band transponders and 48 Ku-band transponders with DTH power levels, as well as elaborate beam interconnectivity and C-/Ku-band cross-strapping.

About Arrowhead Global Solutions by CapRock

As CapRock Communications’ line of government and military services, Arrowhead Global Solutions supplies integrated, secure communications anytime, anywhere to government operations, first responders and warfighters.  Arrowhead subject-matter experts have a deep understanding of the industry, the technology and the products that support mission-critical applications. Presently the company supports more than thirty government agency customers and thousands of associated end-users through a corporate infrastructure that includes five international teleports and ten regional support centers.  For more information, visit www.arrowhead.com.  

About SES NEW SKIES

SES NEW SKIES is an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) offering satellite communication services to a range of customers including telecommunications providers, broadcasters, corporations and governments around the world. SES NEW SKIES has a global fleet of seven satellites in orbit, with three additional spacecraft under construction (NSS-9, NSS-12 and NSS-14) and ground facilities around the world. Headquartered in The Hague, the company has offices in Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. In addition to SES NEW SKIES, SES wholly owns the market-leading satellite operators SES ASTRA in Europe and SES AMERICOM in North America, 90% of SES SIRIUS in Europe, and strategic participations in Ciel in Canada and Quetzsat in Mexico. SES provides outstanding satellite communications solutions via a global fleet of 39 satellites in 26 orbital locations. For further information: www.ses-newskies.com or www.ses.com

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