SES Global and EchoStar Communications Corp. want to move a damaged EchoStar satellite into a Mexican orbital slot in time to meet the Mexican government’s July deadline for an SES-backed company to start operations from that orbital slot, according to industry officials and documents EchoStar filed with U.S. regulators.

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