BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan, Sept. 9, 2005 – A Russian-built Proton Breeze M launch vehicle successfully placed a satellite into orbit this morning for Telesat, one of the world’s leading ...

Flight International online news 12:30GMT: Telesat's Anik F1R satellite, manufactured by EADS Astrium, is scheduled for launch September 8 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on an International Launch Service ...

Telesat, a leading global satellite operator, announced today an agreement with AMC Networks Broadcasting & Technology, a subsidiary of AMC Networks, the owner and operator of several of cable ...

READY FOR LAUNCH: International Launch Services plans to launch the Anik F1R satellite for Telesat Canada on Sept. 9 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, the company said Sept. 1. The satellite, ...

Some 24 years ago Telesat’s Anik F1 was launched. It has now been retired to a safe ‘graveyard’ orbit a few hundred kilometres above the normal geostationary arc. When Canada’s Anik F1 was sent into ...

Telesat has selected Astrium to supply a 56-transponder C/Kuband telecom satellite to replace Anik F1, a Boeing 702 spacecraft whose performance is being degraded by a solar array concentrator defect.

International Launch Services (ILS) will launch its sixth satellite for Telesat Canada on a Proton Breeze M vehicle, under a contract the companies announced today. Financial terms were not disclosed.