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Inmarsat’s purchase of three high-capacity Ka-band satellites from Airbus was the largest satellite order industrywide since SES ordered seven O3b mPower medium-Earth orbit broadband satellites about a year and a half earlier.
Intelsat and SES are the two largest members of the C-Band Alliance with around 50 geostationary satellites each.
SES plans to launch four more O3b satellites in 2019.
SES contracted Space Systems Loral to refuel propellant tanks on one of its geostationary communications satellites using a robotic vehicle that SSL plans to launch in 2021.