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.