Telesat fires up Nimiq-6 for business
June 18, 2012
By Chris Forrester
Canada’s Telesat has started commercial DTH services from its latest satellite, the powerful Nimiq-6. Telesat’s client is DTH pay-TV broadcaster Bell TV which will use all its available capacity.
The satellite was built by Space Systems/Loral, and launched a month ago on May 18th. It is operating from 91 deg West.
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