SES DTH Brasil Seeks to Expand DTH Services on SES-14

SES DTH Brasil wants to expand the direct-to-home (DTH) service reach of its SES-14 satellite. In an FCC International Bureau petition to modify its U.S. market access authority filed Tuesday, the company said SES-14 is scheduled to launch in Q1, and it asked for authority to serve additional DTH markets in Europe and Africa using its Ku-band capacity beyond the services the agency authorized earlier this year in the U.S., and between the U.S. and various European and western hemisphere nations. The company also asked for U.S. market access for a NASA-hosted payload, Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, for imaging of the planet's upper atmosphere.