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Intelsat believes SES derived the $1,800,000,000 claim by taking the $450,000,000 compensatory amount and tripling it.
Intelsat believes that if the FCC had used Intelsat’s data it would have been eligible for up to $6,500,000,000 of the $9,700,000,000 in clearing payments instead of the $4,870,000,000 awarded in the FCC order.
SES sought $450,000,000 in payments to ensure a 50-50 split between SES and Intelsat and also sought compensatory and punitive damages in its claim.
Intelsat contracted Maxar Technologies to build the Galaxy-37 communications satellite.
Galaxy-37 is the last of 13 satellites ordered between Intelsat and SES to consolidate North American broadcast customers and free up 300 megahertz of C-band spectrum.
SpaceX will launch four of Intelsat’s C-band replacement satellites across two missions starting in 2022.
On 2020-09-04 Viasat requested a rule change to prevent Intelsat from accessing new Ku-band and Ka-band satellite capacity that could allow it to compete in the satellite mobility marketplace.
The reimbursable nature of the C-band replacement satellites led Intelsat and SES to procure 11 of the 13 satellites from U.S. manufacturers.
With the final order, Intelsat has tasked Maxar with building five C-band satellites and Northrop Grumman with building two for Intelsat.
Intelsat committed that it will not seek reimbursement for incremental costs associated with any non-C-band payload portions of the replacement satellites.
Arianespace will launch two of Intelsat’s satellites on an Ariane 5 in 2022 and will launch Galaxy-37 on an Ariane 6 in 2023.
Intelsat and SES expect to receive billions of dollars in incentive payments to clear C-band spectrum by December 2023 and signed manufacturing and launch deals in 2020 to place new capacity in orbit ahead of that deadline.
Intelsat and SES each expect to spend around $1,700,000,000 on manufacturing, launch services and ground infrastructure for their C-band replacement satellites.
Intelsat plans to acquire the commercial aviation business of Gogo, an inflight Wi-Fi provider that competes with Viasat.
Intelsat is purchasing Gogo’s Commercial Aviation business for $400,000,000.
Gogo provided roughly 260 air-to-ground towers that will be available exclusively to Intelsat for commercial aviation customers for 10 years as part of the acquisition.
On 2020-08-24 Intelsat sought bankruptcy-court approval to make an acquisition intended to help offset declining satellite broadcast revenues.
Intelsat will fund the acquisition from its $1,000,000,000 of debtor-in-possession financing.
Intelsat received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on 2020-08-31 to proceed with buying Gogo’s Commercial Aviation business.
Intelsat entered a two-week exclusivity period on 2020-08-16 that bars the unnamed company from negotiating competing offers.