INTELSAT 34 or IS-34 is

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built on

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 cust ...

's 1300-series satellite platform. The satellite broadcasts television to homes in Brazil, distributes video programming for companies like

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and

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across Latin America, and beams Internet broadband services to travelers aboard airplanes and ships crossing the North Atlantic Ocean. The satellite has 22 C-band channels to provide services to North and South America and Europe and 18 Ku-band channels for services to Mexico, Central America, Brazil, the Caribbean, Europe, a portion of the United States, and the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Intelsat 34, unlike its predecessor, does not include the UHF-band that Intelsat had been unable to sell to its intended customer, the

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Launch

Intelsat 34 is the 50th Loral-built satellite launched for Intelsat. With a launch mass of 7,275 pounds - about 3.3 metric tons - Intelsat 34 is a replacement for the

Intelsat 27 Intelsat 27 was an American communications satellite which was to have been operated by Intelsat. Intended as a replacement for Intelsat 805, it was destroyed after the rocket carrying it to orbit fell into the Pacific Ocean 56 seconds after lau ...

spacecraft lost aboard a

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mission in 2013. It took over service from the Galaxy 11 and Intelsat 805 spacecraft in orbit, the company's last two relay stations that had been launched before 2000.

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* Communications satellites in geostationary orbit Spacecraft launched in 2015 Intelsat satellites Satellites using the SSL 1300 bus Spacecraft launched by Ariane rockets {{satellite-stub