SAT-GE, a New
Company, to Offer Satellite Capacity Across the Pacific
(18 June 2007) GE International
Holdings Inc., a holding company for the satellite businesses of General
Electric Company, is now engaged in business in Asia under the name of
SAT-GE.
SAT-GE offers unparalleled satellite capacity across the
Pacific region using the GE-23 satellite (former name AMC-23). GE-23
encompasses 6 individual beams, 5 Ku-band and 1 C-band, that give almost total
coverage of both land mass and ocean from Perth in Australia to Los Angeles in
the USA and from Alaska to South New Zealand. GE-23 offers Ku-band cross
connectivity capability between multiple beams and in C-band, a single
trans-Pacific beam allows simultaneous uplink and downlink from anywhere within
the beam. Manufactured by Alcatel Space, a series 4100 spacecraft, with a
minimum useful life of 15 years, GE-23 was launched on the 29th of December
2005 and operates from an orbital slot at 172 degrees east. It is ideally
positioned to deliver internet applications, data and telecommunications
services via VSAT and broadcast programming for cable and satellite
communities. GE-23 is the renamed AMC-23 satellite, which was recently
transferred from SES to GE following the closing of a broader transaction
between GE and SES.
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