WASHINGTON — Intelsat Chief Executive David McGlade sought to defend his company against allegations that it had established a cartel with fellow satellite-fleet operators Sky Perfect JSat Corp. of Japan, SES of Luxembourg and Paradigm Secure Communications of Britain to lock up a U.S. Navy satellite-services contract potentially worth over $500 million.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.