LA PLATA, Maryland — Three companies that have made concrete investments in satellite in-orbit servicing — **Airbus Defence and Space**, **Astroscale** and **Intelsat** — outlined what it will take for the business to reach commercial viability and why Intelsat’s pioneering satellite life-extension missions with **Northrop Grumman** in geostationary orbit were not enough to catalyze market uptake.
In a webcast organized by the **Global Satellite Operators Assn., GSOA,** the three companies said the market is waiting for much more buy-in from government agencies . . .
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