Galaxy
15
Commercial
Customers
to
Transition
to
Galaxy
12
Following
Anomaly
8
April
2010
Intelsat
S.A.
announced
that
its
Galaxy
15
satellite
(G-15),
located
at
133°
West
Longitude
(WL),
experienced
an
anomaly
on 5
April
2010
at
09:48
UTC.
The
G-15
satellite
primarily
provides
transmission
capacity
for
cable
programmers
in
North
America.
There
has
been
no
immediate
service
interruption
to
customers,
and
based
on
current
technical
information,
no
service
interruption
is
expected
for
the
media
customers
on
this
satellite.
All
media
traffic
on
this
satellite
is
planned
to
be
transitioned
to
Intelsat's
Galaxy
12
satellite,
which
is
the
designated
in-orbit
spare
for
the
North
American
region.
Galaxy
12
is
currently
relocating
to
the
133°
WL
orbital
location.
Intelsat's
global
fleet,
the
largest
of
any
commercial
satellite
operator,
includes
12
other
satellites
that
serve
the
continental
U.S.
region.
Launched
in
2005,
G-15
is
an
Orbital
Star
satellite.
Intelsat
and
Orbital
Sciences
Corporation,
the
manufacturer
of
G-15,
are
conducting
a
technical
investigation
with
respect
to
the
anomaly,
which
has
had
no
impact
on
the
communications
services
delivered
by
the
spacecraft.
Galaxy
15
has
24
C-band
transponders
and
was
designed
to
be
operational
through
2022.
