JAKARTA — Satellite fleet operator SES has canceled contracts for two software-defined GEO-orbit satellites as part of a broad cost-cutting exercise in the wake of its purchase of Intelsat.
The company had said before the merger’s close in July 2025 that maintaining the combined Intelsat-SES fleet of 95 geostationary-orbit satellites would not be necessary.
The two satellites are the IS-41 and IS-44 satellites contracted with manufacturer Thales Alenia Space in January 2022 and scheduled to provide . . .
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