The Intelsat Chapter 11 docket is available in full on PACER under Case No. 20-32299 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and the court-appointed claims agent, Stretto, hosts a free public portal covering the major filings. Intelsat S.A. and 34 affiliated debtors filed on May 13, 2020, and the reorganized company emerged on February 23, 2022, so the record is closed but still fully accessible.
Case Number and Court
The lead case is Case No. 20-32299, assigned to the Honorable Keith L. Phillips. All 35 debtor entities were jointly administered under that single number, which is standard when subsidiaries share creditors and contracts. Individual subsidiary cases were docketed separately (20-32294 through 20-32328), but every substantive filing appears under the lead docket. If you only remember one number, remember 20-32299.
Accessing the Docket on PACER
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) holds the complete, authoritative docket. Register for a free account, search the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, and pull Case No. 20-32299. Every filing is there, including minor procedural entries that curated portals skip.
PACER charges $0.10 per page, capped at $3.00 per document. If your total charges stay below $30 in a billing quarter, the fees are waived. That cushion covers casual research, but a deep pull through a case with thousands of entries can accumulate charges quickly.
Using the Stretto Case Portal
Stretto served as the court-appointed claims and noticing agent and maintains a public portal at cases.stretto.com/intelsat. Filings are organized chronologically and by category, which makes it far easier to navigate than raw PACER search results. The portal is free and covers the major orders, motions, disclosure statements, and plan documents. It does not include every minor procedural entry, but it holds what most creditors, journalists, and researchers actually need.
Other Free Sources
The RECAP Archive at CourtListener.com is a free searchable database of PACER documents contributed by users of the RECAP browser extension. Many Intelsat filings sit there at no cost, though coverage depends on which documents other users happened to download.
SEC EDGAR hosts bankruptcy-era disclosures that Intelsat filed as a public company, including the 8-K announcing the Chapter 11 petition and the 8-K confirming the reorganization plan. Search under Intelsat’s CIK number, 0001525773.
The Filings Most Researchers Want
A case this size produced thousands of docket entries. A few categories carry most of the weight.
First Day Motions
Within hours of the May 13, 2020 petition, Intelsat filed a package of “first day” motions asking the court to let it keep operating normally: continued payment of wages and benefits, ordinary treatment of vendor obligations, use of existing cash management systems, and access to $1 billion in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. DIP financing is a loan available only to Chapter 11 debtors, and for Intelsat it funded ongoing satellite operations and the C-band spectrum clearing work during the case.
Claims Register and Bar Dates
The Claims Register is the ledger of every debt asserted against the company, listing each creditor, the amount claimed, and the type of claim. Proofs of claim had to be filed by court-imposed deadlines: September 9, 2020 for general creditors and November 16, 2020 for governmental entities. Those “bar dates” are absolute cutoffs, and missing them typically means losing the right to collect.
Disclosure Statement and Plan of Reorganization
The Plan of Reorganization dictates who gets paid, how much, and in what form. Before creditors could vote, the court had to approve a disclosure statement giving them adequate financial information about the company and the proposed terms. Together, these two documents are the most consequential filings in the docket. They lay out the treatment of every creditor class, the new capital structure, and the conditions for emergence.
Confirmation and Emergence Dates
The Bankruptcy Court confirmed the Plan of Reorganization on December 16, 2021. With regulatory approvals and closing conditions satisfied, the plan became effective on February 23, 2022, and Intelsat emerged as a private company. The New York Stock Exchange had delisted Intelsat’s common shares on May 20, 2020, days after the filing, and existing common shareholders received no recovery under the confirmed plan.
What Changed After the SES Acquisition
SES completed its acquisition of Intelsat on July 17, 2025. The intelsat.com domain now redirects to the SES website, and press releases once hosted on Intelsat’s newsroom pages are no longer at their original URLs. Historical SEC filings remain on EDGAR under CIK 0001525773, and the Stretto case portal still lists the Intelsat case. For a durable trail of the full record, PACER and Stretto are the two sources least likely to move.