In the latest hunt for income, Paris-headquartered satellite operator Eutelsat Group is selling most of its infrastructure assets to investor EQT, in one of the first examples of a satco borrowing the trend from terrestrial MNOs. The plan is to carve out all of Eutelsat Group’s passive assets (land, buildings, support infrastructure, antennas and connectivity circuits) and house them in a new entity. EQT will own 80% of the infrastructure unit, meanwhile Eutelsat will own 20% and will be the anchor tenant. The ground station business will consist of around 1,400 antennas in 100 locations, combining assets from Eutelsat Group and OneWeb, the UK LEO satco that Eutelsat merged with last year. This gives Eutelsat the opportunity to lower capex spending and…