Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Galaxy 4R was a communications satellite operated by PanAmSat from 2000 to 2006 and by Intelsat from 2006 to 2009. It spent most of its operational life at an orbital location of 99° W a slot once occupied by the Galaxy IV which suffered a failure in 1998. G4R was launched on April 18 2000 with an Ariane launch vehicle and covered North America with twenty-four transponders each on the C- and Ku bands.