Galaxy 25 (G-25) launched in 1997, 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

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and

PanAmSat PanAmSat Corporation was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1984 by Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, it operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news a ...

for

Telstar Telstar refers to a series of communications satellites. The first two, Telstar 1 and Telstar 2, were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched atop of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962, successfully relayed the first televisi ...

5, is a medium-powered

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formerly in a

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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 using its

LS-1300 The SSL 1300, previously the LS-1300 and the FS-1300, is a satellite bus produced by Maxar Technologies. Total broadcast power ranges from 5 to 25 kW, and the platform can accommodate from 12 to 150 transponders. The SSL 1300 is a modular platf ...

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and is currently owned and operated by

. 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

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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 ...

(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 subscri ...

(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),

Globecast Globecast is a French company providing services for the radio, television and media industry. These services are feeding various television and radio platforms: direct-broadcast satellite (DBS), digital terrestrial television (DTT), cable TV, IP ...

, RRSat, and

ABS-CBN ABS-CBN is a leading Philippine media and content company. It serves as the flagship media brand of ABS-CBN Corporation, a subsidiary of Lopez Holdings Corporation. Once the country's largest free-to-air television network, ABS-CBN has since ...

, 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
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Technical details

Platform operators

See also

References

External links