All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
Virgin Australia will introduce 737MAX aircraft for the first time as part of its technology decision to expand its relationship with Intelsat.
SES’s statement of issues will argue that Intelsat’s bankruptcy court erred in holding that the plain language of the SES and Intelsat Consortium Agreement mandated a 50/50 split of the FCC’s incentive payments and unambiguously excluded billions of dollars in incentive payments awarded based on Intelsat’s joint work with SES.
Intelsat will provide 2Ku connectivity to 737MAX aircraft for the first time in its relationship with Virgin Australia, expanding their partnership.
Intelsat acquired part of inflight connectivity provider Gogo in 2020 to expand in the aviation market.
SES filed plans on 2022-10-14 to appeal a court decision that disallowed its bid to equally split nearly $9,000,000,000 of anticipated C-band clearing proceeds with Intelsat.
New C-band satellites are required to clear the spectrum and Intelsat and SES have ordered 13 of these satellites between them.
Intelsat would receive a maximum of $4,900,000,000 and SES would receive a maximum of $3,970,000,000 if they fully vacate the lower 300 MHz slice of C-band by 2023-12-05.
Intelsat filed for Chapter 11 two months before SES brought its $1,800,000,000 claim in July 2020.
Intelsat operates a fleet of GEO satellites and has a distribution alliance with OneWeb for LEO broadband capability.
Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 are the 12th and 13th geostationary telecommunications satellites that Northrop Grumman has manufactured for Intelsat.
Arianespace is due to deploy two of Intelsat’s C-band replacement satellites in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Intelsat plans to launch six of the seven C-band replacement satellites before the end of 2022.
By the end of 2022 Intelsat will have launched more C-band replacement satellites than SES.
Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 are C-band communications satellites built by Northrop Grumman for Intelsat.
Intelsat stands to receive nearly $5,000,000,000 from the Federal Communications Commission if it fully vacates the lower 300 MHz slice of C-band by the FCC deadline of 2023-12-05.
SpaceX is slated to launch two of Intelsat’s remaining five C-band replacement satellites in November 2022.
Intelsat successfully launched the Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 geosynchronous communications satellites.
SpaceX on 2022-10-08 deployed the first two of seven satellites Intelsat needs to clear C-band spectrum in the United States.
SpaceX is scheduled to launch Intelsat’s final C-band replacement spacecraft in the second quarter of 2023.
SpaceX had previously targeted a 67-minute launch window opening at 7:06 p.m. ET (23:07 UTC) for an earlier planned launch attempt of the Intelsat G-33/G-34 mission.