SES has appointed Martin Halliwell to the newly created position of director of communications technology. He will also serve as a member of the management committee. Halliwell will be responsible for SES’s broadband satellite technology as well as the Astra satellite operator’s existing analogue and digital networks. The Astranet broadband satellite platform is currently operational in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region with further platforms under construction in order to provide global connectivity. Later this year SES will launch the Broadband Interactive System as the world’s first Ka-Band return path. Halliwell joined SES in 1987 from Cable & Wireless and has since held a number of senior technical positions within the Luxembourg-based company.”