Boeing has established a Commercial Satellite Services group to sell commercial satellite telecommunications services to the US Government and other satellite users.

The group, headquartered in El Segundo, California, US, is part of Boeing Space & Intelligence Systems and will perform services for the military as well as for commercial users of satellite services to meet mission needs.

The new group will work with the satellite system owners to market available bandwidth and will include hosted payloads capacity on their future spacecraft.

The company has received orders for five hosted payloads, which includes a four-satellite contract from Intelsat in July 2009 and three Boeing 702HP satellites with Inmarsat in August 2010.