Intelsat 19

Intelsat 19 is a television satellite of the satellite operator Intelsat, based in Washington, DC.

He was placed in a geostationary orbit on June 1, 2012 at 5:23 UTC clock by a Zenit- 3SL rocket from the offshore platform " Odyssey " in the Pacific.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is equipped with 34 Ku-band and 24 C- band transponders and is intended to supplement on the position 166 ° East Intelsat 8, which is to remain in service until 2019. Intelsat 19 will provide from its position of western North America, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the Pacific and Southeast Asia and Japan with image and data services. It was built based on the 1300E - satellite bus by Space Systems / Loral (SS / L), of Palo Alto in the U.S. and has a design life of 18 years. First, only one of the two solar boom could be deployed from Intelsat 19, which would mean a significant loss of efficiency of the satellite. The second solar arrays has unfolded June 12, 2012 However, it provides only about half the amount of energy that it should provide.

On December 19, 2012 it was announced that rarely coincident conditions in the production of solar panels are responsible for ensuring that during the ascent of the rocket (before the separation of the payload fairing ) occurred an event which led to the damage of solar arrays.