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Intelsat

Active Broadband & DTC Private HQ: McLean, Virginia Founded 1964

Operator of 57 GEO communications satellites - one of the two largest commercial fleets along with SES. Pending acquisition by SES announced April 2024.

51.1
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#13 of 17
Peer Rank
Broadband Telecom cohort
Total Launches
No flights tracked
Estimated valuation
Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

51.1
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#13 of 17
Peer groupBroadband Telecom
Data coverage82%

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorBroadband & DTC
Rank within sector#13 of 17
Tracked peers17

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameIntelsat S.A.
OwnershipPrivate
HeadquartersMcLean, Virginia
CountryUS
Founded1964
FounderInter-governmental consortium (privatized 2001)
CEODavid Wajsgras
AliasesIntelsat, Intelsat General Communications, Intelsat US LLC
SubsidiariesIntelsat General Communications
Key programsIS-40e (Galaxy 40e), Galaxy fleet refresh, FlexAir
Gov customersDoD, U.S. State Department, NATO
IPO statusPrivate; SES announced agreement to acquire Intelsat April 2024 (close pending regulatory)

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Intelsat corporate 'About us' page documents the 57-GEO fleet, McLean VA HQ, and pending SES merger status.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

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