Telstar 19V

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Description:

• TELSTAR 19V (Telstar 19 VANTAGE) is a communications satellite with two high throughput payloads, one in Ku-band and the other in Ka-band. The satellite, the second of a new generation of Telesat satellites optimized to serve the types of bandwidth intensive applications increasingly being used across the satellite industry. Hughes Network Systems LLC (Hughes) has made a significant commitment to utilize the satellite’s high throughput Ka-band capacity in South America to expand its broadband satellite services. The satellite has additional high throughput Ka-band capacity over Northern Canada, the Caribbean and the North Atlantic Ocean. It will also provide high throughput and conventional Ku-band capacity over Brazil, the Andean region and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Mission details:

• Telesat′s Telstar 19 Vantage was launched on Jul 22, 2018 from Cape Canaveral. The SpaceX Falcon 9 put the 7075 kg SSL-1300 satellite into a subsynchronous transfer orbit of 243 x 17857 km x 27.0 deg.
  On Jul 25 the satellite begain orbit raising, reaching 300 x 23182 km. Telstar 19V will provide broadband Ku/Ka-band services from 63W.

External links:

• Satellite tracking (n2ya.com): Real time satellite tracking