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Global Eagle’s top unsecured creditors include SES ($26,600,000), Intelsat ($9,800,000), Yahsat ($3,600,000), Hughes Network Systems ($3,100,000), Telesat ($2,500,000), Arabsat ($1,000,000), and AsiaSat ($960,000).
SES CEO Steve Collar wrote on 2020-06-09 that the frequency of deaths of unarmed Black Americans and underlying biases raises questions about a path to change.
SES can earn a maximum of $3,970,000,000 under the FCC’s accelerated clearing program.
SES alleges that Intelsat continued to affirm and work with the C-Band Alliance for months after the FCC announced intent to pursue a public auction and then repudiated its obligations after the FCC spelled out individual funding amounts.
SES filed a claim on 2020-07-14 against Intelsat seeking at least $1,800,000,000 in damages.
SES’s minimum $1,800,000,000 claim includes compensatory and punitive damages.
No launch contracts had been announced yet for the 10 C-band satellites ordered by Intelsat and SES.
There has been an increase in commercial GEO satellite orders that includes 10 C-band satellites ordered in recent weeks by Intelsat and SES as part of the FCC effort to clear satellite C-band spectrum for terrestrial 0.005 kg use.
All four replacement satellites SES recently ordered with the expectation of reimbursement will carry only C-band payloads.
The FCC’s estimated $5,200,000,000 in reimbursement funds will mainly go to Intelsat and SES.
Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Claro are estimated to be worthy of $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 in subsidized replacement C-band infrastructure and eligible for up to $9,700,000,000 in incentives if they clear customers out of the spectrum by early December 2023.
Claro signed a contract with SES for capacity on the SES-4 satellite to continue service for a Florida customer currently using Claro’s Star One C1 satellite.
Eutelsat disclosed the satellite need in its C-band transition plan, a document the FCC required from Eutelsat, Intelsat, SES, Telesat, and Claro by 2020-06-19.
Intelsat and SES have ordered 10 replacement C-band satellites ahead of the FCC’s auction from Boeing, Maxar, and Northrop Grumman.
Intelsat and SES have ordered a total of 10 C-band replacement satellites from three U.S. manufacturers.
Intelsat plans to order one additional C-band replacement satellite, and SES plans to order two additional C-band replacement satellites.
The FCC estimates moving costs for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One will be $3,000,000,000 to $5,000,000,000 to cover upgrading ground systems and building and launching replacement satellites.
Northrop Grumman will build SES-18 and SES-19 in Dulles, Virginia on its GeoStar-3 satellite platform.
SES and Intelsat are racing to clear 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum by 2023-12-05 to obtain accelerated clearing payments for vacating the band two years ahead of the FCC’s deadline.
SES did not disclose launch providers for the four satellites scheduled to launch in the third quarter of 2022.