The Ka-band HTS capacity from Telstar-19 Vantage and SES-17 has been incorporated as an enhancement to the Argentine Satellite System and will be used by ARSAT on a temporary basis until ARSAT-SG1 is launched.
Jupiter-3 unseats Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage, which had a launch mass of roughly 7,076 kg, as the largest commercial communications satellite ever deployed.
Telstar-19 Vantage launched on 2018-07-22 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 with a launch mass of approximately 7,076 kg.
Telstar 19 VANTAGE includes a high-power Ku-band spot beam that provides very high throughputs at a lower cost-per-bit in the Brazilian Pre-salt oil region.
In a regulatory filing submitted 2021-03-04, Telesat reported that Maxar was investigating an anomaly affecting the in-orbit Telstar 19 VANTAGE spacecraft that Maxar built for Telesat.
Telstar 19 VANTAGE, launched in 2018, suffered failures of a component that supports the operation of two of the spacecraft’s three batteries.
SpaceX used the same first-stage booster that launched Amos-17 to launch Telstar-19 Vantage for Telesat in July 2018 and Es’hail-2 for Es’hailSat in November 2018.
The new Hughes–Yahsat joint venture will use more than 65 gigabits per second of Ka-band capacity supplied from Yahsat’s Al Yah 3 satellite and Hughes’ leased payloads on Eutelsat’s 65 West A and Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage satellites.
Telesat launched the geostationary high-throughput satellites Telstar-18 Vantage and Telstar-19 Vantage in the past 12 months.
SpaceX previously used the same Block 5 booster for the July launch of Telesat’s Telstar 19 Vantage satellite.
Hughes entered service a leased Ka-band payload on Telesat’s Telstar-19 Vantage over Latin America in 2019.
Telstar 18 Vantage is a high-throughput satellite and is the second Telesat spacecraft launched by SpaceX that summer following the 2018-07-22 launch of Telstar 19 Vantage on another Falcon 9 Block 5 from the same launch pad.
Telstar-19 Vantage carries a mix of traditional Ku-band wide beams and Ku- and Ka-band spot beams for connectivity services including internet for consumers, stores, offices, and mobile platforms such as boats and airplanes.
SpaceX’s next mission after the Telstar 19 Vantage launch is a Falcon 9 carrying 10 Iridium Next satellites scheduled for launch on 2018-07-25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Telstar-19 Vantage is the first of two SSL-built satellites that SpaceX is launching for Telesat in the year of the launch.
Hughes Network Systems of Germantown, Maryland and Bell Canada of Québec signed 15-year capacity leases on Telstar-19 Vantage prior to launch.
Telesat is positioning Telstar-19 Vantage at 63 degrees West, the same orbital slot occupied by its seven-year-old Ku-band Telstar-14R satellite.
SpaceX launched the Telstar 19 Vantage telecom satellite for Telesat on 2018-07-22 using a Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket.
The Falcon 9 deployed Telstar 19 Vantage into a geostationary transfer orbit almost 33 minutes after liftoff.