WASHINGTON — EchoStar Corp. has canceled its proposed purchase of Mexican satellite fleet operator Satmex following the refusal of Satmex debt-holders — some of them “hell-bent on destruction,” in the words of an EchoStar official — to accept the transaction’s terms, EchoStar announced March 16.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.