LA PLATA, Maryland — SES’s purchase of Intelsat became effective July 17 after sailing through U.S. and European regulatory reviews apparently unscathed, with no material forced divestitures — an outcome that would have been inconceivable only a few years ago for a merger of what then were the world’s two largest commercial satellite fleet operators.
That was before SpaceX’s Starlink cannonballed into the commercial satcom business. Whatever comes of Amazon’s Project Kuiper and Eutelsat’s OneWeb broadband constellations, and . . .
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