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The Ku-band payload on Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 is jointly owned by Intelsat and JSAT International.
The G-37/H-4 launch coincides with the 20-year anniversary of Intelsat’s JSAT partnership.
The H-4 Ku-band payload will be owned jointly by Intelsat and JSAT International, the U.S.-owned subsidiary of SKY Perfect JSAT Corp.
Intelsat successfully launched Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 (G-37/H-4).
The G-37/H-4 launch completes Intelsat’s Galaxy fleet refresh plan that began about 10 months earlier.
Intelsat launched six other C-band replacement satellites over the last 10 months that are in position and operating without issues.
Maxar Technologies has built nearly 60 spacecraft for Intelsat since the 1970s.
Intelsat 40e, built by Maxar and carrying the NASA-hosted TEMPO payload, went into orbit on 2023-04-07.
Intelsat is on track to receive a total of $4,900,000,000 from the Federal Communications Commission by vacating C-band frequencies by 2023-12-05.
Intelsat launched 10 satellites throughout 1997 using a diversity of rockets including Arianespace’s Ariane 4, Lockheed Martin’s Atlas 2, and Russia’s Proton.
Intelsat expects Galaxy-37 to provide about three more years of service than the 15-year design life given to its other C-band replacement satellites.
Because Galaxy-37 was not launched in pairs like Intelsat’s other replacement C-band spacecraft, SpaceX placed Galaxy-37 into a high-energy orbit that reduces the fuel needed to reach its final slot.
The spacecraft comprises two payloads: Galaxy-37 in C-band for Intelsat’s broadcast customers over the continental United States and Horizons-4, which Intelsat partly owns with Japan’s JSAT International for Ku-band connectivity services over the Pacific Ocean and the United States.
Intelsat will use Galaxy 37/Horizons-4’s C-band capability over the continental United States.
The Ku-band payload on Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 is jointly owned by Intelsat and JSAT International.
The Galaxy satellites that Maxar built for Intelsat are based on the Maxar 1300 platform.
Counting the IS-40e communications satellite launched in April, Intelsat deployed eight geostationary satellites in the past 10 months, setting a new record for the commercial satellite industry.
Maxar built six geostationary spacecraft for Intelsat in three and a half years.
Galaxy 37/Horizons-4 joins four Maxar-built satellites already in orbit on the Maxar 1300 bus that transition Intelsat’s broadband coverage to free up spectrum for 0.005 kg terrestrial wireless services.
Apart from an Arianespace Ariane 5 mission in December that deployed a pair of C-band replacements and a European weather-tracking satellite, all of Intelsat’s recent launches used SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.