Dear {{lead.First Name:default=Colleague}},

As you know, the Satellite Transponder Guide is the most comprehensive resource on North American Transponders available and an indispensable resource for all satellite/communications decision makers.

To give you the most current information available, we will be updating your Dashboard every two weeks. Simply log on to the Satellite Transponder Guide Platform and you will see your updates.

Here is your Dashboard update for this week:

SES finished drifting AMC-6 to 83 degrees West and loaded up some of the transponders with services that formerly used to be on AMC-9 before AMC-9 failed in mid-June. There won't be full restoration of AMC-9 services as AMC-6 has technical problems that allow just a few transponders to be operated. Currently AMC-6 has Ku-band transmissions with some aeronautical broadband services and one video service, the New York State Media Services Center.

SES' AMC-4 satellite temporarily stopped at 85 degrees West longitude to provide some AMC-9 Ku-band restoration services while AMC-6 was drifting into place at 83 degrees West longitude.  With those services moved to AMC-6, AMC-4 continues its westward drift to its new home at 134.9 degrees West longitude.

New York State Media Services Center was initially restored to AMC-15 Ku-band (105 degrees West longitude) at 12,096 MHz horizontal polarity but is back at the 83 degrees West orbital slot, currently on the AMC-6 Ku-band satellite at 11,834 MHz horizontal polarity in DVB-S format with a symbol rate of 3,979.  

Discovery Communications removed a digital signal from AMC-10/AMC-7 C-band (135 degrees West longitude). The signal at 4,120 MHz vertical polarity in DVB-S2 format with a symbol rate of 30,000 contained West HD versions of Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Investigation Discovery, Animal Planet, and BBC America.   

A new Intelsat digital signal launched on Galaxy 13 C-band (127 degrees West longitude) carrying BBC World News in standard definition. The signal is at 3,900 MHz vertical polarity in DVB-S format with a symbol rate of 27,690.   

 In a Sistema Jalisciense signal on Eutelsat 113 West A C-band (113 degrees West longitude),  new radio services were added. In the signal at 3,857 MHz horizontal polarity in DVB-S format with a symbol rate of 2,805, the two audio services are XEJB-FM from Guadalajara and XHVJL-FM from Puerto Vallarta.  

Apostolic Oneness Network is gone from a signal at 12,160 MHz horizontal polarity in DVB-S format with a symbol rate of 1,480 on Eutelsat 117 West A Ku-band (116.8 degrees West longitude).  

On Eutelsat 117 West A C-band (116.8 degrees West longitude) in a digital signal of Dominican Republic television signals at 3,800 MHz vertical polarity in DVB-S2 format with a symbol rate of 5,224, Telecentro 13 and Digital Vision 63 are gone.   

Intelsat-35e was launched on July 5 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral. The C-/Ku-band satellite was manufactured by Boeing for operator Intelsat. It will reside at 325 degrees East and replace the aging Intelsat-903 bird.

A Soyuz rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 14 carrying 73 satellites. The payload included cubesats for four constellations.

A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Shijian-17 satellite suffered a fatal launch failure on July 2 shortly after take off from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center. This failure was the second incident involving a Chinese rocket in as many weeks.

Best,

Tish Drake
VP and Group Publisher, Satellite Transponder Guide
1-888-707-5814
clientservices@accessintel.com