WASHINGTON — It’s unclear whether the WRC-27 conference of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) regulators will see established geostationary-satellite fleet operators opposing technical studies of whether non-GEO constellations could increase their power levels without harming GEO operations.
That was a real battle at WRC-23, but four years is a long time in today’s satellite industry, which is evolving faster than ever.
Since then, the two largest geostationary-orbit operators, SES and Intelsat, have merged. Intelsat had not been . . .
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