Intelsat Americas 5
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Intelsat Americas 5 (IA-5) (formerly Telstar 5) is a communications satellite in the Clarke orbit at 97 degrees west, above a point in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of the Galapagos Islands. It was manufactured by Space Systems/Loral and has been continuously operated by Loral Skynet. The satellite's main C-band transponder cluster covers the United States, southern and central Canada, and northern Mexico; its main Ku-band transponder cluster covers the U.S., Mexico, and the northern Caribbean Sea. An additional C- and Ku-band transponder is targeted at the Hawaiian Islands.
IA-5 transmits both free-to-air (FTA) direct home broadcasting and subscription channels. Its FTA channels include Christian-based stations in several languagess, including The Church Channel, God's Learning Channel, Daystar, JCTV, Smile of a Child, TBN Enlace, CNL, RBN, AlKarma, Miracle Channel, TCT and Trinity Broadcasting Network, secular English language channel Gameznflix, and several international broadcasters, especially from the Middle East, including Abu Dhabi TV, Al-Iraqiya, Al Jazeera, BVN, Thai Global Network, and TV Romania International, as well as a large number of Persian language broadcasters, principally operating out of the United States, often from the Los Angeles area.
The Ku-band side of the satellite currently carries the platforms of Pittsburgh International Telecommunications, Inc, GlobeCast World TV, Glorystar, RRSat, ABS-CBN, and ETTV America, with free-to-air and encrypted television and radio programming in a variety of languages:
- Afghan
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Belgian
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Cambodian
- Chinese
- Croatian
- Dutch
- English
- Ethipoian
- Persian
- Filipino
- Flemish
- French
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lao
- Macedonian
- Malayalam
- Persian
- Polish
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Tagalog
- Thai
- Tigrigna
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- and others
