Hosted Payloads leverage a commercial satellite bus to gain timely, economical and responsive access to geosynchronous orbit. By placing a customer’s payload on our spacecraft, we offer the fastest, most cost-efficient access to space. Each Intelsat General Hosted Payload is designed to match a specific government or scientific need, such as communications, earth observation, defense or remote sensing.

Hosted Payloads provide our customers with numerous advantages over dedicated systems, including:

• significant cost savings


• risk reduction


• technology demonstration


• flight qualification


• rapid deployment capabilities

Intelsat General’s 45 years of industry success allows us to deliver these on-orbit capabilities quickly, differentiating us from other providers. Because many of our customers rely on timely satellite capacity delivery, we place tremendous emphasis on our schedule commitments. This means we launch multiple satellites each year in a variety of orbital locations.