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PRESS RELEASE   SES ASTRA
Luxembourg 23 June 2010 – SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), announced today that it has renamed its 100 percent owned affiliate SES SIRIUS into SES ASTRA. The renaming follows the full acquisition of SES SIRIUS in March 2010 and completes the integration of the company’s fleet, activities and teams into SES ASTRA’s operations.SES first became a shareholder in SES SIRIUS in October 2000 with a stake of 50 percent. In the course of the last decade, SES ASTRA has gradually increased this stake until it purchased the remaining 10 percent of the shares from the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in March 2010.