Galaxy 26

Galaxy 26

Galaxy 26 was a communications satellite owned by Intelsat located at 93° W longitude, serving the North American market. It was built by Space Systems/Loral, as part of its FS-1300 line. Galaxy 26 was formerly known as Intelsat Americas 6 and Telstar 6. It was launched aboard a Proton-K/DM3 from Baykonur LC81. cite web
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Clients included ABC, CBS, CNN and FOX. [ [http://www.lyngsat.com/galaxy26.html Lyngsat.com list of channels carried on Galaxy 26] ]

The Dying Bird

On June 29, 2008, Galaxy 26 had a power failure in one of its solar panels. It lost 15 kilowatts out of a possible 37 kilowatt capacity, which is very important for charging the batteries. [ [http://www.satnews.com/cgi-bin/display_story.cgi?number=264085338 SatNews.com Wattlessness has Afflicted Inteletsat's G26] ] Also, there were multiple transponder failures. Some cable networks, as of June 30, 2008, have started to offload their feeds to backup satellites as to keep themselves on air in the event of total failure. The future operation of Galaxy 26 is still unknown.

Fox News has moved operations to Galaxy 16 Transponders 7, 9, and 11, and to AMC 5 Transponder 4K Slot F according to a Fox News Internal Email.

CBS has moved their feeds to Galaxy 28, and secondary feeds to Galaxy 25. Within the next week they will have all main feeds on Galaxy 25, and to have Galaxy 28 carrying all secondary feeds, according to an Internal E-Mail. During the evening and night hours of June 30, 2008, CBS will have switched all of the affiliates to their backup satellite systems as to preserve their programming.

Galaxy 26 has had its share of problems since its February 19, 1999 launch. It has lost a backup command and control receiver, the back up computer, and has completely shut off twice.

References

External links

* Gunter's Space Page - information on [http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/telstar-5.htm Galaxy 26]
*satbeams footprint|5279|Galaxy-26 Ku-band North America Beam
*satbeams footprint|5280|Galaxy-26 C-band North America Beam

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