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Telesat is providing a small amount of capacity to Intelsat to cover for Intelsat’s 2019-04-07 loss of the Intelsat-29e satellite.
Intelsat’s backlog stood at $7.9 billion, down $200,000,000 from the end of 2018.
Intelsat is assessing replacement options for Intelsat-29e’s capacity, including a new satellite, hosted payloads, expanding use of other operators’ spacecraft, or stationing one of Intelsat’s 53 geostationary satellites at the 310-degrees east orbital slot.
Boeing built five of Intelsat’s Epic-series satellites and supplied the payload for one Epic satellite that used a chassis from Airbus Defense and Space.
Intelsat reported $528,400,000 in revenue for its first quarter ended 2019-03-31 and a net loss of $120,600,000 for that quarter.
Intelsat now forecasts 2019 revenue of $2,000,000,000 to $2.06 billion, down from a prior projection of $2,060,000,000 to $2,120,000,000.
Unexpected customer losses in government and media sectors reduced Intelsat’s 2019 revenue projection by $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 in addition to the satellite loss.
Intelsat will be ready to execute the C-Band Alliance’s plan fully within 36 months of an FCC decree to repurpose satellite C-band for 0.005 kg.
Intelsat’s capital expenditure plans do not include the four satellites the company said it will buy if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission accepts the C-Band Alliance’s plan for selling up to 180 megahertz of C-band spectrum.
Only three Intelsat satellites have failed in orbit out of 92 launched since 1992, including Intelsat-29e.
The investigation has indicated that Intelsat-29e’s failure is unrelated to the propulsion issues with the Boeing-built Intelsat-33e launched in 2016.
Boeing built payloads for all six of Intelsat’s Epic-class high-throughput satellites and built the chassis for five of them, while Airbus supplied the platform for Intelsat-32e.
Intelsat-33e suffered a thruster issue in 2016 that insurers estimated could reduce its design life by 18 months.
Intel spearheaded the initial C-band spectrum plan with Intelsat in 2017 despite not being a member of the C-Band Alliance.
In a 2019-02-15 letter, Intelsat and SES supported allowing new users in the uplink band but warned that the large size of C‑band beams and the 36,000‑kilometer distance to geostationary satellites make harmful signal interference a high risk.
OneWeb received an initial $500,000,000 in 2015 from Airbus, Hughes Network Systems, Intelsat, Qualcomm, Virgin Group, Coca-Cola, Grupo Salinas, and Bharti Airtel.
The proposed C-band spectrum sale could generate $40,000,000,000 for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat.
Intelsat selected Orbital ATK in January 2018 to build Galaxy-30 as the first satellite in its Galaxy fleet replacement program.
Kalpak Gude handled regulatory activity for Panamsat, a satellite operator acquired by Intelsat in 2006.
Eutelsat has 37 geostationary satellites and Telesat has 17 geostationary satellites, and the two smaller C-Band Alliance members would use capacity on Intelsat and SES satellites to cover for their lost capacity.