Galaxy 3C


Galaxy 3C is a communications satellite operated by PanAmSat from 2000 to 2006, and by Intelsat from 2006 to today. It spent most of its operational life at an orbital location of 95° W. Galaxy 3C was launched on June 15, 2002, with a Zenit launch vehicle, and covered North America with twenty-four transponders each on the C- and sixteen in Ku band.