International Launch Services (ILS) and SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) today announced the extension to December 31, 2014 of the SES Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) and the addition of a sixth firm ILS Proton mission through 2014. The MLA was signed in June 2007 between ILS and SES Satellite Leasing Limited, SES’s satellite procurement and leasing company in the Isle of Man. The first SES launch under the MLA was the successful ILS Proton launch of SES-1 on April 24, 2010. In addition, two of the four SES missions scheduled in 2011 and 2012 for the launches of the SES-3, SES-4, QuetzSat-1 and SES-5/ASTRA 4B satellites will be part of the MLA. The remaining three MLA missions will be assigned as needed and in principle cover the 2012 – 2014 time frame. In addition,...
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