List of communication satellite companies
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This is a list of all companies currently operating at least one commercial communication satellite or currently has one on order.
International
  • Horizons
    Horizons Satellite LLC
    Horizons Satellite LLC is a joint venture between Intelsat and JSAT. The company was originally formed in 2005, pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between JSAT and PanAmSat Arianespace launched the Horizons-2 satellite at 21:41 GMT on 21 December 2007....

  • RASCOM
Africa

Nilesat
Nilesat
Nilesat is an Egyptian company, and the name of a series of Egyptian communications satellites. It was established in 1996 with the purpose of operating Egyptian satellites and their associated ground control station and uplinking facilities...



— NASRDA
Asia and Oceania

SingTel Optus
Optus
SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications...



  • Chinasat
    Chinasat
    Chinasat is a family of communications satellites operated by the China Direct Broadcast Satellite Company. The series was previously operated by the China Satellite Communications Corporation, and before that the China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corporation, which was owned by China's...

  • ChinaStar
  • Sinosat


  • APT Satellite Holdings Limited
  • AsiaSat
    AsiaSat
    Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is a commercial operator of communication spacecraft. AsiaSat is based in Hong Kong with two major shareholders, CITIC and General Electric.-Satellites:...



  • Agrani
  • ISRO/Antrix (INSAT)
  • ISRO/DECU (EDUSAT
    EDUSAT
    EDUSAT or GSAT-3 is a communications satellite which was launched on 20 September 2004 by the Indian Space Research Organisation. EDUSAT is the first Indian satellite built exclusively to serve the educational sector...

    GSAT
    GSAT
    The GSAT satellites are India's indigenously developed technologies of satellite communications, like digital audio, data and video broadcasting. GSAT has been designed with two S-band and 3 C-band transponders .-GSAT-4:GSAT-4, also known as HealthSat was an experimental satellite launched on 15th...

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  • PT Datakom
  • PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara
  • PT Telkom


Iranian Space Agency
Iranian Space Agency
The Iranian Space Agency is Iran's governmental space agency. Iran is an active participant in the Asian space race and became an orbital-launch-capable nation in 2009...



Spacecom
Spacecom
Spacecom, or Space Communication , is a communications satellite operator in the Middle East, European Union and North-America headquartered in the city of Ramat Gan, Israel...



  • Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation
    Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation
    The Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation is a Japanese corporation established 1993-04-13 to procure, manage and lease transponders on communications satellites. Its largest stockholder, owning 49.9%, is NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation...

  • NTT DoCoMo
    NTT DoCoMo
    is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...

  • SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
    SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation
    is a Japanese direct broadcast satellite television company the operates the SKY PerfecTV! satellite network.-Overview:On April 2, 2007, JSAT Corporation and SKY Perfect Communications established SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, which was a holding company, by stock transfer...



JSC KazSat
KazSat
KazSat 1 , the first Kazakh space satellite, was launched on June 18, 2006 by Proton-K rocket . It contains 12 Ku-band transponders . It is a communications satellite occupying geosynchronous orbit approximately 36 000 km above the Earth...



KT
KT
-Science:* kT in Physics* Knot , a unit of velocity * Kardashev scale, method of measuring an advanced civilization's level of technological advancement...



  • Binariang Sdn. Bhd.  (MEASAT
    MEASAT
    MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd., formerly Binariang Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd is a Malaysian communications satellite operator.MEASAT is the name of a line of communications satellites owned and operated by the company.As of 2006, the MEASAT satellite network consists of three geostationary...

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— Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission SUPARCO

Mabuhay
Mabuhay
Mabuhay is a word derived from the Tagalog language of the Philippines. It may refer to any one of the following:* The Mabuhay Channel* Mabuhay Gardens* Mabuhay Singers* Mabuhay * Mabuhay, Zamboanga Sibugay...



— Arabsat

Singapore Telecommunications
Singapore Telecommunications
Singapore Telecommunications Limited , commonly abbreviated as SingTel, is a Singaporean telecommunications company, with a combined mobile subscriber base of 416 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries at end of June 2011 increased by 19 percent from a...



Chunghwa Telecom
Chunghwa Telecom
Chunghwa Telecom is the largest telecommunications company in Taiwan. It has its headquarters in Zhongzheng District, Taipei on the remains of the old Taipei Prison.- History :...



Thaicom
Thaicom
Thaicom is the name of a series of communications satellites operated out of Thailand and the name of Thaicom Public Company Limited, which is the company that owns and operates the THAICOM satellite fleet and other telecommunication businesses in Thailand and throughout the...

/formerly Shin Satellite
Shin Satellite
THAICOM Public Company Limited, was formerly known as Shin Satellite Plc , is Thailand's first satellite operator. It is a subsidiary of Shin Corporation, the biggest telecommunications conglomerate in Thailand...



TONGASAT
TONGASAT
TONGASAT is the licenced agent of the Kingdom of Tonga which is responsible for making and coordinating Tonga's satellite filings to the International Telecommunication Union and then licencing those satellite filings to international satellite operators for their commercial use.-External links:* ...



  • Thuraya
    Thuraya
    Thuraya , the Arabic name of the Pleiades, is a regional satellite phone provider. Its coverage area is most of Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and East Africa, Asia and Australia....

  • YahSat


— VNPT (VINASAT
VINASAT
Vinasat-1 is the first Vietnamese satellite to be placed in orbit. It was launched at 22:17 GMT on 18 April 2008, by an Ariane 5ECA rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. The launch was conducted by the European organisation Arianespace. VINASAT is the national satellite program of the...

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Europe

  • Eutelsat
    Eutelsat
    Eutelsat S.A. is a French-based satellite provider. Providing coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, it is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues.Eutelsat’s satellites...

  • France Télécom
    France Télécom
    France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...

  • Stellat
  • Télédiffusion de France


  • Deutsche Telekom
    Deutsche Telekom
    Deutsche Telekom AG is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Europe....

  • OHB System


Hellas-Sat
Hellas-Sat
Hellas-Sat Consortium Limited is the owner and a wholesaler of capacity and services of the Greek/Cypriot "Hellas-Sat-2" satellite, an Astrium Eurostar E2000+, which was launched successfully on 13 May, 2003 to the 39° E orbital position in the Geostationary Satellite Orbit.Hellas-Sat has...



  • Intelsat
    Intelsat
    Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...

  • SES Astra
    SES Astra
    Astra is the name for the geostationary communication satellites, both individually and as a group, which are owned and operated by SES S.A., a global satellite operator based in Betzdorf, in eastern Luxembourg. The name is sometimes also used to describe the channels broadcasting from these...



— SES World Skies

Telenor
Telenor
Telenor Group is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor Group is mostly an international wireless carrier with operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, working predominantly under the Telenor brand...



Lamit Company
Lamit Company
Lamit Company is an independent satellite operator company in Europe, operating worldwide. The company provides satellite internet and telephony to primary schools and high schools from five continents. Lamit also helps companies extend their activities all over the world, by using satellite...



  • Russian Satellite Communication Company
  • Gaskom
    Gaskom
    Gaskom is a village in the Tenkodogo Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso. As of 2005, the village has a population of 472....

  • Global Information Systems
  • Intersputnik
    Intersputnik
    The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications commonly known as Intersputnik is an international satellite communications services organization founded on November 15, 1971, in Moscow by the Soviet Union along with a group of eight formerly socialist states...

  • Media Most (Bonum
    Bonum
    Bonum may refer to:*Bonum sane was a motu proprio on Saint-Joseph written by Pope Benedict XV and delivered on July 25, 1920.*Summum bonum is an expression used in philosophy....

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  • Hisdesat
  • Hispasat
    Hispasat
    Hispasat is a group of Spanish communication satellites . They were developed by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial and the European Space Agency...



— Nordiska Satellitaktiebolaget

  • Eurasiasat SAM
  • Turksat
    Turksat
    Turksat Satellite Communication and Cable TV Operation AS is the only satellite operator company in Turkey. It was founded as a government company...



  • ICO Satellite Management
    ICO Satellite Management
    ICO Global Communications Limited is a mobile satellite services company based in Reston, Virginia.The company is seeking to build a hybrid satellite and terrestrial network to broadcast wireless voice, data, and/or Internet services to mobile and portable devices.In April 2008 it launched the...

  • Inmarsat
    Inmarsat
    Inmarsat plc is a British satellite telecommunications company, offering global, mobile services. It provides telephony and data services to users worldwide, via portable or mobile terminals which communicate to ground stations through eleven geostationary telecommunications satellites...



North America

  • Ciel Satellite Group
    Ciel Satellite Group
    Ciel Satellite Group is a private Canadian satellite operator, established in 2004, providing services throughout the Americas as a result of Borealis Infrastructure, a financial institution, partnered with satellite operator SES. The headquarters are located in Ottawa, Ontario...

     (Ciel-2
    Ciel-2
    Ciel 2 is a commercial broadcast communications satellite owned by Canadian Ciel Satellite Group. It was launched on December 10, 2008 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by ILS Proton-M/Breeze-M vehicle. The satellite is built by Thales Alenia Space and is based on Spacebus-4000C4 bus. It is...

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  • Telesat


Satmex
Satmex
Satmex is a commercial company from Mexico that operates space satellites that provide services to the Americas.-History:...



  • AirTV
  • Astrolink
  • DirecTV
    DirecTV
    DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...

  • EchoStar
  • Globalstar
    Globalstar
    Globalstar is a low Earth orbit satellite constellation for satellite phone and low-speed data communications, somewhat similar to the Iridium satellite constellation and Orbcomm satellite systems.-History:...

  • Hughes Network Systems (Spaceway
    SPACEWAY
    The SPACEWAY system was originally envisioned as a global Ka band communications system by Hughes Electronics. When the project to build the system was taken over by Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics, it was transformed into a phased deployment initially only launching a...

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  • Iridium Satellite LLC
  • Loral Skynet
  • Orbcomm
    Orbcomm
    ORBCOMM is a company that offers M2M global asset monitoring and messaging services from its constellation of 29 LEO communications satellites orbiting at 775 km. Like its voice-centric competitors Iridium and Globalstar, it filed for Chapter 11 protection, in September, 2000. ORBCOMM issued...

  • PanAmSat
    PanAmSat
    The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news agencies, internet service providers, government agencies, and...

  • SkyTerra
  • Spacenet
    Spacenet
    Spacenet, Inc. is a provider of VSAT satellite-based data network services as well as hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks and network management services...

  • Sirius Satellite Radio
    Sirius Satellite Radio
    Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...

  • Teledesic
    Teledesic
    Teledesic was a company founded in the 1990s to build a commercial broadband satellite constellation for Internet services. Using low-earth orbiting satellites small antennas could be used to provide uplinks of as much as 100 Mbit/second and downlinks of up to 720 Mbit/second...

  • TerreStar
  • 1worldspace
  • WildBlue
  • XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio
    XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

  • XTAR
    XTAR
    XTAR LLC is a satellite communications company headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, with offices in Madrid, Spain and Palo Alto, California. It is a joint venture between Loral Space & Communications, which owns 56 percent, and HISDESAT, which owns 44 percent. The company is the first U.S...

South America

  • AprizeSat (LatinSat)
  • Nahuelsat


  • Ministry of Science and Technology of Venezuela (Venesat-1
    Venesat-1
    Venesat-1, also known as Simón Bolívar, is the first Venezuelan satellite. It was designed, built, launched, controlled and monitored by the CGWIC subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is a communications satellite, which will be operated from a geosynchronous orbit...

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  • Star One
    Star One (satellite operator)
    Star One is a Brazilian communication satellite company. It is a subsidiary of Embratel.-Satellite fleet:Star One own a small fleet of satellites. The Star One C1 was launched atop an Ariane 5-ECA rocket at 22:06 GMT on November 14, 2007...

  • INPE
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