PARIS— Satellite fleet operator Eutelsat has purchased more flights from Europe’s Arianespace than any other commercial company, and more telecommunications satellites from Europe’s two prime contractors.
But as a publicly traded commercial company, Eutelsat has fiduciary obligations — value for money — that sometimes take it beyond Europe’s borders in search of launches — for satellites, less so.
This used to be a nonissue when Europe’s Arianespace, with its Ariane 4 and Ariane 5 rockets, was regularly winning U.S. commercial business to the detriment of . . .
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