Satellite service provider Intelsat successfully launched Intelsat 21, the fourth of its five planned launches for 2012. Intelsat 23 is scheduled for launch later this year aboard a Proton launch vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Intelsat 21 will serve the DTH and cable programmers in Latin America. Replacing Intelsat 9, the satellite is designed to provide more than 18 years of service and features C-band services for South America, North America and Europe, and Ku-band services for North ...

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