Intelsat Americas

Intelsat Americas, was the re-designation given to the several Telstar satellites serving North America following their sale to Intelsat by Loral Space & Communications in 2003. On February 1, 2007, they were renamed under the "Galaxy" brand.

The following name conversions were applied to the Telstar satellites serving the United States:

Telstar 5 → Intelsat Americas 5 → Galaxy 25
Telstar 6 → Intelsat Americas 6 → Galaxy 26
Telstar 7 → Intelsat Americas 7 → Galaxy 27
Telstar 8 → Intelsat Americas 8 → Galaxy 28
Telstar 13 → Intelsat Americas 13 → Galaxy 23
Intelsat Americas 9, while under construction → was finished and launched as Galaxy 19

The Telstar satellites that do not directly serve the United States retained their original Telstar designation.

References

Intelsat, Ltd.

Main articles

Spacecraft

Intelsat I, II, III	I F-1 II F-1 II F-2 II F-3 II F-4 III F-1 III F-2 III F-3 III F-4 III F-5 III F-6 III F-7 III F-8

Intelsat IV	IV F-1 IV F-2 IV F-3 IV F-4 IV F-5 IV F-6 IV F-7 IV F-8 IVA F-1 IVA F-2 IVA F-3 IVA F-4 IVA F-5 IVA F-6

Intelsat V	V F-1 V F-2 V F-3 V F-4 V F-5 V F-6 V F-7 V F-8 V F-9 VA F-10 VA F-11 VA F-12 VA F-13 VA F-14 VA F-15

Intelsat VI	VI F-1 VI F-2 VI F-3 VI F-4 VI F-5

Intelsat 7-10	701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 801 802 803 804 805 806 901 902 903 904 905 906 907 10-02

Intelsat	1R 2 3R 4 5 6B 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29e 34 K APR-1 APR-2

Galaxy	3C 4R 9 10R 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 25 26 27 28

Other	Horizons 1 Horizons 2 Marisat-F2 SBS-6 New Dawn

See also: 1996 Xichang launch accident
Intersputnik

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