THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, September 25, 2002 – New Skies Satellites N.V. (AEX, NYSE: NSK), the global satellite communications company, today announced a long-term agreement with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for value-added television contribution services over the new NSS-7 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite.

New Skies will enable the EBU, a group of 119 broadcasters from 79 countries, to digitally deliver contribution feeds from sporting and special events as well as breaking news stories in the United States to its member stations across Europe. In particular, it will link seamlessly EBU’s Washington bureau to the Eurovision users’ earth stations in Europe.

“We operate the largest video contribution network in the world, carrying the highest-quality coverage of world news and sports events, so we require satellite services that are reliable, efficient and fully integrated into our global transmission network,” said Stefan Kürten, EBU’s Director of Operations. “New Skies’ value-added service, including high-speed fiber connectivity, the new Washington D.C. Mediaport and the NSS-7 satellite, offered the most seamless solution and competitive coverage.”

The service for the EBU will take advantage of the NSS-7 satellite and New Skies’ Washington D.C. Mediaport. The EBU will co-locate digital transmission equipment in the recently enhanced facility, which also features an ultra-high speed OC-12 fiber link (622 Mbps) direct to a major Washington D.C. metro video hub, connecting all local access providers in the area. The EBU will route its digital video traffic through this connection to the Mediaport for uplink to the NSS-7 satellite and broadcast to points across Europe and the Middle East. The service will begin during the fourth quarter of this year.

“New Skies is fully committed to providing customers with completely integrated and managed video services and custom video transmissions,” said Rudo Jockin, New Skies’ executive vice president, sales and marketing. “We have invested significantly in the in-orbit capacity, ground facilities and experienced staff to provide high-quality services to the broadcast community.”

“This agreement with the EBU, which boasts the world’s most prestigious broadcasters, highlights their confidence in the quality and value that our services and resources offer. It also highlights our dedication to ensuring broadcasters throughout Europe have access to the coverage their audiences want to see,” Jockin continued.

NSS-7 was launched on April 16, 2002 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana and commenced commercial services on May 30, 2002. The satellite replaced both NSS-803 and NSS-K at 338.5 degrees east, combining the extensive television transmissions and Internet traffic from the two satellites to debut as a premier video and IP neighborhood in the Atlantic Ocean region.

NSS-7, a Lockheed Martin A2100AX model spacecraft, boasts 36 C-band and 36 Ku-band transponders and eleven high-powered coverage beams. The satellite is capable of broadcasting video, Internet and data traffic throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With a blue-chip full-time customer lineup and occasional-use transmissions of breaking world news as well as prominent sporting events, NSS-7 broadcasts to thousands of antennas across its vast footprint.

About the EBU
Founded in February 1950, the European Broadcasting Union is the largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world with 70 members and associate members in 51 countries of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East and 49 associate members in 29 countries further afield. Activities include operation of the Eurovision and Euroradio networks, coordination of news and sports programming, promotion of technical standardization, legal advice and the defense of public service broadcasting.

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 two spacecraft under construction, which are planned to serve the Americas and Asia from two new orbital locations. In line with its growth strategy, 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 London, Johannesburg, New Delhi, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Washington, D.C. Additional information is available at www.newskies.com.