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TL;DR

SES married Intelsat in a $3.1B space wedding with champagne, buzzwords, and no real LEO assets.

Now they’re waking up with cultural whiplash, duplicated departments, and integration hell.

PR says “multi-orbit powerhouse”; reality says “who unplugged the server?”

SES: The morning after

On paper, it’s poetic. A European juggernaut with its tidy Luxembourg pedigree marries a recovering American satellite firm that crawled out of Chapter 11 clutching a secondhand operations manual.

SES, groomed in a culture where everyone arrives ten minutes early with color-coded folders, is now hand-in-hand with Intelsat, which thinks “agile” means emailing a spreadsheet instead of faxing it. The merger announcement might as well have come with a translator. Not for language, just for workflow expectations.

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