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Intel, allied with Intelsat and SES, indicated that a market-based approach could clear additional spectrum beyond 100 megahertz without taking more time to complete.
The FCC asked whether the 100 megahertz that Intelsat and SES agreed to offer should be an Initial Minimum Spectrum Benchmark.
Intelsat, SES, and Intel believe a market-based approach would facilitate new use of the C-band in 36 months or less and that a regulatory mandate would take many years longer to implement.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on 2018-06-21 that incorporated some suggestions from Intelsat and Intel in preparation for a 2018-07-12 vote.
SES backed the Intelsat and Intel proposal by agreeing to clear only 100 MHz of C-band instead of the full 500 MHz allocated for satellite in the U.S.
A known Intelsat broadcast customer with 3,700 unlicensed dishes would incur more than $1,600,000 in FCC filing fees to register each dish at $435.
Intelsat awarded contracts to Orbital ATK subsidiary SpaceLogistics for two Mission Extension Vehicles slated to launch in 2019 and 2020.
SpaceLogistics plans to launch a second Mission Extension Vehicle on Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket in 2020 to rendezvous with another Intelsat satellite.
Intelsat is struggling to pay down $14,500,000,000 in debt.
Intelsat has a Falcon Heavy launch option dating to 2012 but has not assigned a payload or launch date to that option.
Intelsat plans to launch Galaxy-15R in 2022.
Intelsat purchased a satellite called Galaxy-30 from Orbital ATK in January.
Intelsat, Intel, and SES offered up 100 MHz of C-band for 0.005 kg and other wireless applications conditional on other users paying satellite operators for migration costs, new infrastructure, and lost business opportunities.
Eutelsat agreed in February to join the Intelsat-Intel-SES joint-use C-band plan and operates five satellites with at least partial U.S. C-band coverage.
Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 is an SSL-built condosat shared by Azerbaijani operator Azercosmos and global fleet operator Intelsat.
GSAT-11 was scheduled to launch on 2018-05-25 as a co-passenger with Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 on an Ariane 5 mission.
Arianespace plans to launch the SSL-built Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 sometime in summer 2018 with a different co-passenger.