BEIJING, December 3, 2002 – New Skies Satellites N.V. (AEX, NYSE: NSK), the global satellite communications company, today announced that it has opened an office in Beijing and made senior sales appointments in Beijing and Hong Kong as part of its expansion strategy for China.

New Skies officially opened its first China office in Beijing today and announced the appointment of Yang,Yingmei as chief representative and sales director for Greater China. May joins New Skies from Cisco Systems where she was a senior project manager for the China Unicom Operations. May has more than 12 years of satellite experience, having worked for both Hughes Network Systems and ChinaSat. During her time at ChinaSat, May worked on the Spacenet 1/ChinaSat 5 project and the Intelsat 805 project. She has a strong background in VSAT systems having worked on projects throughout China. At Cisco, May's focus was on large Voice over IP projects.

New Skies also announced the appointment of Maurice Liu, who will head up New Skies’ new office in Hong Kong as senior sales director for the Asia Pacific region. Maurice joins New Skies from PanAmSat, where he was a senior sales director for the Greater China and Southeast Asia territories.

“China is such an important market for us, particularly as we prepare to launch NSS-6, a satellite with powerful new capacity for the region, that we have hired two of the communications industry’s most experienced sales executives, each with many years of success in the China market,” said Dan Goldberg, CEO of New Skies Satellites. “NSS-6 will bring customers in China access to completely reliable communications services ranging from DTH television distribution to two-way business communications. The considerable experience that both May and Maurice have in the telecoms market in China will help us ensure our offerings are tailored to meet the exacting needs of the customers.”

New Skies’ newest satellite serving the China market, NSS-6, is scheduled for launch in mid-December and will be situated at 95 degrees east longitude. This high-power Ku-band satellite has been designed to deliver high-speed telecommunications and Internet services as well as broadband multimedia applications and digital video transmissions throughout Asia. NSS-6 also features Ka-band uplink beams focused on Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing/Tianjin, Wuhan, Tokyo and Seoul, among other Asian cities. The Ka-band payload offers higher power and higher throughput using smaller, more efficient transmission systems. With state-of-the-art Ka-band and Ku-band uplinks and high-power Ku-band downlinks, NSS-6 offers an ideal combination of performance and coverage for intra- and inter-regional applications.

About New Skies Satellites
New Skies Satellites (AEX, NYSE: NSK) is one of only four fixed satellite communications companies with truly global satellite coverage, offering video, voice, data and Internet communications services to a range of telecommunications carriers, broadcasters, large corporations and Internet service providers around the world. New Skies has five satellites in geosynchronous orbit and ground facilities around the world. The company also has one spacecraft ready for launch which will serve Asia from 95 degrees East longitude and one spacecraft under construction, which is planned to serve the Americas from a new orbital location. Additionally, the company has secured certain rights to make use of additional orbital positions, including four serving the Americas. New Skies is headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands, and has offices in Beijing, London, Johannesburg, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. Additional information is available at www.newskies.com.