SES introduced the launch of the primary two O3b mPOWER satellites at a presentation held on December 16, 2022.
The corporate’s connectivity answer, enabled by satellites, is promising to revolutionize the usage of the web on cruise ships. mPOWER satellites will present constant, dependable web entry in all places, whether or not at sea or within the air.
SES has been engaged on offering dependable connectivity by way of their Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) answer for some time now, nonetheless, the corporate is now launching a brand new constellation of mPOWER satellites that can additional enhance the web on cruise ships.
The primary two O3b mPOWER satellites are about to be launched from Cape Canaveral whereas some cruise strains, like Princess Cruises, have already adopted SES’ connectivity options with the intention to allow their friends to have web entry aboard their ships.
“Connectivity is past elementary,” stated John Padgett, president of Princess Cruises.
“It’s one factor to name one thing essential, crucial, elementary, however now it’s truly past that.”
Beforehand, connectivity was non-obligatory on cruise ships and restricted at greatest.
“Folks thought we have been insane to counsel that we might have cloud providers on a cruise ship. That was at all times considered structurally unimaginable,” added Padgett.
Princess Cruises expanded its partnership with SES to allow O3b mPOWER satellite-based communications system which considerably elevated the bandwidth capability on Princess’ ships.
“At the moment (2015) you realize, on a cruise ship was nonetheless deemed type of an non-obligatory amenity and we solely had like 40 Mbps and o3b was a sport changer. We actually built-in every little thing on the ship again to real-time communications so we’re speaking about meals, beverage, leisure, retail, on line casino, all the economic processes, all of the equipment processes and linked that by way of O3b.”
“That’s what we’re enthusiastic about mPOWER as a result of that’s going to take us up the following degree,” concluded Padgett.
