OREANDA-NEWS. On July 21, 2009 ILS International Launch Services (ILS) and Telesat, the world’s fourth largest fixed satellite services operator, have announced a contract for the launch on an ILS Proton of Telesat’s recently ordered Telstar 14R satellite, reported the press-centre of Khrunichev.

Telstar 14R is under construction by Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, for delivery to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ILS and Khrunichev are implementing a mission integration schedule to support a mid-2011 launch. ILS has launched five Telesat satellites. A sixth, Telesat’s Nimiq 5, is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on an ILS Proton later this year.
 
Telesat’s newest satellite will provide long term service for Brazil, the Continental United States (including the Gulf of Mexico and northern Caribbean), the Southern Cone of South America, the Andean region (including Central America and southern Caribbean), and the North and Mid-Atlantic Ocean.