Boeing Defends C-Band Replacement Satellite Cost Estimates
The upper end of the estimated replacement C-band satellite costs in the preliminary cost catalog reflects "reasonable and appropriate" variables, Boeing said in an FCC docket 18-122 posting Friday. A significantly accelerated build and launch timeline requires "mission-specific design accommodations,…
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inventory management, factory capacity balancing, and innovative partnerships with key suppliers," all of which comes with a price tag, it said. Boeing opposed prohibiting hybrid satellite use by limiting reimbursements to single-purpose satellites operating solely with a C-band payload and within the continental U.S. Intelsat said it "emphatically" agrees with SES (see 2005220030) that the price catalog needs to be finalized posthaste because it's "a lynchpin" for calculating the scope of work needed. Claro said it's electing for accelerated C-band relocation.