Intelsat

Following Intelsat shareholder approval last week, and the UK competition authority’s recent green light, the European Commission has now given final approval for the SES acquisition of Intelsat. SES SES is the Luxembourg-based multi-orbit satellite comms giant, providing video and data connectivity to broadcasters and ISPs. It has 70 satellites in operation in MEO (Medium Earth Orbit) and GEO (Geostationary ...

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Northrop Grumman and Intelsat are highlighting the first-ever undocking between two commercial spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit with the completion of a satellite life-extension mission. A Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV) was developed by Space Logistics LLC, a Northrop Grumman company. And this has now successfully undocked with Intelsat’s IS-901 satellite, after completing the “life extension” service. According to Intelsat, the MEV ...

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Intelsat has completed its C-band frequency clearing process for which it will receive nearly $3.7 billion in payment from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission had set deadline stages to clear the spectrum, but had also offered landmark incentive payments to satellite operators. These were to clear the mid-range (3.7 – 3.82 GHz) of the frequency (3.4 – ...

Intelsat, the satellite comms and inflight connectivity specialist, has begun monitoring air pollution above America on behalf of NASA. Specifically, the company has powered up the first space-based instrument to monitor major air pollutants across North America and send data back to earth as part of the first phase of in-orbit testing, it reports. The UV-visible spectrometer, operated by Intelsat ...

OneWeb and Intelsat, the satellite comms companies, have agreed a global distribution partnership to offer airlines multi-orbit inflight connectivity. The agreement will see Intelsat distribute OneWeb’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to airlines worldwide together with Intelsat’s existing geo-stationary (GEO) satellite service. The companies – which expect the multi-orbit solution to be in service by 2024 – say there ...

Five months since its current CEO, Stephen Spengler, announced his intention to leave, Intelsat has appointed its next CEO, David Wajsgras. The Virginia-based communications satellite services provider, which was formerly an intergovernmental consortium, has recently completed its exit from Chapter 11 in the US. After two years of financial restructuring – concentrated around C-band spectrum changes for 5G services – the company has ...

Intelsat has officially completed its almost two-year-long financial restructuring process, having filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2020. The final milestone was receipt of regulatory approvals, completion of certain corporate actions, and satisfaction of other customary conditions, it has announced. The reorganisation has seen the company reduce its ...

Kymeta, a satellite communications company, has partnered with Intelsat, the satellite services provider, to demo satellite-enabled 5G connectivity for mobile comms. The demonstration involved Kymeta’s electronically steered flat-panel u8 antenna using Intelsat’s integrated satellite and terrestrial network. The companies described it as the first test of its kind in a mobile environment. The demonstration was carried out by the research ...