PARIS — Nongeostationary mobile satellite service providers Iridium Communications and SES’s O3b Ltd., and geostationary-fleet operator Eutelsat, are asking U.S. regulators to reject or delay Intelsat’s application to add Ku- Ka-band to a future satellite to replace Galaxy 15 at 133 degrees west.
Intelsat says it will launch a spot beam high-throughput satellite as Galaxy 15R in 2022 into that slot, and will expand the capacity from the current C-band.
Paris-based Eutelsat, in a petition to the U.S. Federal . . .
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