Galaxy 25 (G-25) launched in 1997, the launch was contracted by

International Launch Services International Launch Services, Inc. (ILS) is a joint venture with exclusive rights to the worldwide sale of commercial Angara and Proton rocket launch services. Proton launches take place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan while Angara is l ...

(ILS), (formerly known as Intelsat Americas 5 (IA-5) until 15 February 2007 when it was renamed as result of the merger between owner Intelsat and

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Telstar Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the fi ...

5) is a medium-powered

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formerly in a geostationary orbit at 97° West, above a point in the

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several hundred miles west of the Galapagos Islands. It was manufactured by

Space Systems/Loral SSL, formerly Space Systems/Loral, LLC (SS/L), of Palo Alto, California, is a wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary of Maxar Technologies. SSL designs and builds satellites and space systems for a wide variety of government and commercial cus ...

, part of its LS-1300

satellite bus A satellite bus (or spacecraft bus) is the main body and structural component of a satellite or spacecraft, in which the payload and all scientific instruments are held. Bus-derived satellites are opposed to specially produced satellites. Bus- ...

, and is currently owned and operated by Intelsat. The satellite's main C-band

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cluster covers the

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, and

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; its main

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transponder cluster covers the United States,

, and the Northern Caribbean Sea. An additional C-band and a Ku-band transponder pair targets

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. Galaxy 25 has a projected life of 12 years. It was replaced by

Galaxy 19 Galaxy 19 is a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 97° West longitude, serving the North American market. Galaxy 19 replaced Galaxy 25 which is nearing the end of its design life and has been moved to 93.1°W longitude. It was ...

(formerly IA-9) in late 2008. When it was last in service at 97.1° West, Galaxy 25 transmitted both

Free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...

(FTA)

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(DTH) broadcasting and encrypted subscription channels / services. The replacement satellite,

was successfully launched on September 24, 2008. Galaxy 25 has been moved to a different orbital position at 93.1° West where it is currently broadcasting several services on its K_u band transponders.

Technical details

Platform operators

The K_u-Band side of the satellite carried the platforms of Pittsburgh International Telecommunications, Inc (PIT),

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RRSat RR Media was a NASDAQ listed provider of global digital media services to the broadcast industry and content owners. Its services can be divided into four main groups: global content distribution network (satellite, fiber and the internet); conten ...

, and

ABS-CBN ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) is a Philippine commercial broadcast network that serves as the flagship property of ABS-CBN Corporation, a company unde ...

, with free-to-air and encrypted television and radio programming in a variety of languages:

References

External links

RRsat website

Intelsat website

Pittsburgh International Telecommunications Information

Globecast website
{{Orbital launches in 1997 Communications satellites in geostationary orbit Satellite television Spacecraft launched in 1997 Satellites using the SSL 1300 bus

Technical details

Platform operators

See also

References

External links