BROADBAND & DTC · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-06-11

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.

47.4

ARI Composite

Moderate Risk

#15 of 18

Peer Rank

Broadband Telecom cohort

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Total Launches

No flights tracked

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Estimated valuation

Not disclosed

FINANCIAL HEALTH

47.4

ARI composite · Moderate Risk

Peer rank#15 of 18

Peer groupBroadband Telecom

Data coverage82%

Tracked gov contracts$24.5M across 2 awards

Full finance profile →

CAPITAL & CREDIT PROFILE

Government capital

$24.5M lifetime tracked obligations across 2 awards — top agency Department of Defense ($24.5M) (strict id-matched; unattributed award rows are excluded). Explore grants →
Source: USAspending.gov award obligations matched to this company. Obligations, not recognized revenue.

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorBroadband & DTC

Rank within sector#15 of 18

Tracked peers18

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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