Telesat announced that its new Telstar 12 VANTAGE satellite is now fully operational at 15 degrees West. Telstar 12 VANTAGE was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on 24 November and is the first of a new generation of Telesat satellites with capacity optimised to serve the types of bandwidth intensive applications increasingly in demand by users.

Source: Telstar 12 VANTAGE operational 3 weeks after launch


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