Orbital Intelsat 18 User Manual
Intelsat 18, Mission description, Geostar

Communications
Mission Description
The Intelsat 18 satellite built for Intelsat carries a hybrid payload and is located at an orbital slot at 180
degrees East Longitude. The satellite's C-band payload serves Eastern Asia, the Western Pacific and
North America. The Ku-band payload serves North America, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Australia,
New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanatu, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and other islands.
GEOStar
™
Satellites for Intelsat
Intelsat 18 is one of ten Orbital GEOStar communications satellites ordered by Intelsat.
Coverage:
Asia Pacific Region
Mission:
C- and Ku-band communications
Customer:
Intelsat
FACTS AT A GLANCE
Intelsat 18
Hybrid C-band and Ku-band Commercial Communications Satellite for Intelsat
GEO
Intelsat 18 in Orbital’s Dulles, Virginia satellite
manufacturing facility
• Galaxy 12
• Galaxy 14
• Galaxy 15
• Horizons-2
• Intelsat 11
• Intelsat 15
• Intelsat 16
• Intelsat 18
• Intelsat 23
• Intelsat 28
- GMD Boost Vehicle (2 pages)
- GQM-163A Coyote (2 pages)
- Minotaur I (99 pages)
- Minotaur I (2 pages)
- Minotaur VI (2 pages)
- Minotaur IV (121 pages)
- Minotaur V (2 pages)
- Minotaur IV (2 pages)
- Minotaur-C (2 pages)
- Pegasus (2 pages)
- Pegasus (92 pages)
- Antares (2 pages)
- Antares (99 pages)
- GEOStar-2 Bus (4 pages)
- GEOStar-3 Bus (2 pages)
- GEOStar Hosted Payloads (2 pages)
- SMF – Virginia (2 pages)
- SMF – Arizona (2 pages)
- LEOStar-3 Bus (4 pages)
- LEOStar-2 Bus (4 pages)
- Iridium NEXT (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model 358 (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model 5E9 (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model 621 (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model 625 (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model 9843 (2 pages)
- Hingelock TEE Deployer Model T126 (2 pages)
- Overlap Dual-TEE Model 225 (2 pages)
- Overlap TEE Self-Deployer Model 1/2 OL-SD (2 pages)
- Overlap TEE Deployer Model 214 (2 pages)
- Wire Antenna Deployment Assembly Model 499 (2 pages)
- Wire Antenna Deployment Assembly Model 9842 (2 pages)
- Deep Space 1 (2 pages)
- Dawn (2 pages)
- RHESSI (2 pages)
- SORCE (2 pages)
- IBEX (2 pages)
- Coriolis (2 pages)
- FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC (2 pages)
- AIM (2 pages)
- Glory (2 pages)
- Landsat 8 (2 pages)
- OCO-2 (2 pages)
- ICESat-2 (2 pages)
- ICON (2 pages)