headquarters ottawa on canada key people daniel s. goldberg products satellite communications and integration services website www.telesat.com telesat canada is a canadian satellite communications company founded on may 2 1969 . the company is headquartered in ottawa ontario as well as having offices in the united states and brazil . on october 5 2007 loral space & communications inc. and the public sector pension investment board of canada received the final regulatory approval necessary to complete the acquisition of telesat from bce inc. for cad 3.25 billion . the acquisition closed on october 31 2007 with loral owning 64 percent of telesat . at the same time telesat canada merged with loral skynet a subsidiary of loral space & communications . loral skynet was a full service global satellite operator headquartered in bedminster new jersey . this resulted in the transfer of all of the assets of loral skynet to telesat . contents 1 services 2 history 3 satellites launched for telesat 4 future satellites 5 references 6 external links services edit the company is now the fourth largest fixed satellite services provider in the world . it owns a fleet of 13 satellites has one other satellite under construction and operates 13 additional satellites for other entities . telesat carries canada s two major dbs providers signals bell tv and shaw direct as well as more than 200 of canada s television channels . telesat s anik f2 carries a spot beam ka band payload for satellite internet access for users in the united states wildblue and tens of thousands of users in canada xplornet . 1 2 the ka band system uses spot beams to manage bandwidth concerns linking to multiple satellite ground stations connected to the internet . skynet s customers included hbo disney cable & wireless singapore telecom connexion by boeing global crossing bt north america globecomm systems upc and china central television . these are now telesat customers . loral skynet provided a wide range of video and data transmission services . it became a subsidiary of loral space & communications when loral acquired it in 1997 from at & t corporation . skynet s fleet consists of telstars 11n 12 14r estrela do sul 2 and 18 . in 2003 skynet sold its north american satellite fleet telstars 5 through 8 and 13 to intelsat ; they were renamed intelsat americas 5 8 and 13 . this was done to help reduce debt after its parent loral space & communications filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on july 15 2003 . as part of the agreement skynet was precluded from competing in the north american market until march 18 2006 . in june 2007 loral space & communications made an unsuccessful bid to acquire intelsat . 1 history edit telesat began as telesat canada a canadian crown corporation created by an act of parliament in 1969 . 3 telesat launched anik a1 in 1972 as the world s first domestic communications satellite in geostationary orbit operated by a commercial company . the satellite was retired from use in 1981 . until february 1979 telesat had a legal monopoly on earth stations in canada any entity wishing send or receive satellite signals had to sign a long term lease with telesat for an earth station ; contracts for such leases were still enforced after the monopoly was ended . telesat was sold by the federal government to bell in 1998 . 4 on december 18 2006 loral space & communications announced that it along with canada s public sector pension investment board psp investments would acquire telesat for us 2.8 b. 5 on november 17 2010 telesat holdings inc. hired jpmorgan chase & co. morgan stanley and credit suisse group ag to start a formal sales process and offer so called staple financing to interest buyers for 6 billion to 7 billion . 6 satellites launched for telesat edit main articles anik satellite and nimiq anik a1 1972 anik a2 1973 anik a3 1975 anik b 1978 anik d1 1982 decommissioned 1991 anik c3 1982 anik c2 1983 sold to paracom s.a. 1993 anik d2 1984 sold to ge americom 1991 and arabsat 1993 anik c1 1985 sold to paracom s.a. 1993 and decommissioned 2003 anik e2 1991 anik e1 1991 msat 1 1996 nimiq 1 1999 anik f1 2000 nimiq 2 2002 estrela do sul 1 telstar 14 2004 anik f2 2004 anik f1r 2005 anik f3 2007 telstar 11n entered service march 31 2009 2 nimiq 4 2008 nimiq 5 2009 telstar 14r estrela do sul 2 2011 north solar array did not fully deploy . 3 nimiq 6 2012 future satellites edit this section needs to be updated . please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . april 2015 telesat has recently when announced plans to build and launch its 20th and 21st satellites . citation needed telesat announced on december 30 2009 that nimiq 6 was built by space systems loral ss l . bell tv a canadian satellite tv provider agreed to fully lease the satellite for its lifetime to serve the subscribers across canada . nimiq 6 has a payload of 32 high powered ku band transponders . it utlixes the ss l1300 platform and has a 15 year mission life . it was launched in 2012 by international launch services . 7 telesat launched telstar 12 vantage in late 2015 on a h2a204 variant of the h iia rocket . 8 references edit wildblue how it works . retrieved 2010 11 10 . pricing announced for new xplornet ka band satellite service press release . xplornet . 2005 04 19 . retrieved 2010 11 10 . babe robert e. control of telephones the canadian experience . canadian journal of communication . 13 2 . canadian satellite television . retrieved 12 july 2015 . loral and psp investments agree to acquire telesat canada press release . loral space & communications . 2006 12 18 . retrieved 2006 12 12 . top stories business and finance . bloomberg.com . retrieved 15 april 2015 . ils wins nimiq 6 launch satellite today 18 march 2010 telesat orders high throughput satellite to replace telstar 12 and expand capacity at 15 degrees west . retrieved 15 april 2015 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to telesat 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