SES can be considered a pioneer in the trend of the satellite sector toward lower orbits, for its foray into O3b Networks, which operates in medium earth orbit (MEO), about 8,000 kilometers away from Earth (at mid-year, SES purchased 100% of O3b). However, in an interview with Convergencialatina  during the Latin American Satellites Congress 2016, Jurandir Pitsch, Sales VP for Latin America South at SES, put cold cloths to the effusive appearance of constellations to initiatives of low Earth orbit (LEO), and said the big change for the industry comes from the hand of the construction of "programmable" satellites, so as to introduce technology to make changes during the device’s 15 years of life, or later, in an inclined orbit.