ADVISORY/PanAmSat Media Advisory On Launch of Galaxy IVR Satellite.Business Editor ADVISORY...for April 18 (Tuesday) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO: PanAmSat Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SPOT), the world's leading commercial provider of global satellite services. WHAT: The launch of PanAmSat's Galaxy IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. communications satellite, which will provide video, Internet and telecommunications services throughout North America. WHEN: Tuesday, April 18, 2000, launch window begins at 8:29 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (12:29 a.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) See UTC. GMT - Universal Time 1 ). WHERE: Arianespace's launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana. WHY: Galaxy IVR will be PanAmSat's third new North American satellite in its Galaxy fleet in four months; will become PanAmSat's 11th satellite to provide coverage of the United States and its 21st worldwide; will offer expanded and enhanced broadcast and telecommunications services throughout North America; will be the third new satellite in PanAmSat's seven-satellite expansion and redeployment plan, expanding the company's fleet to 24 spacecraft by mid-2001. SATELLITE FEEDS: Satellite feed Tuesday, April 18, 2000, from 7:49 p.m. to 10:19 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (11:49 p.m. to 2:19 a.m. GMT). United States C-band: Galaxy XI transponder 23C; D/L D/L abbr. demand loan frequency = 4160 horizontal; analog NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. . Galaxy XR transponder 24K; D/L frequency = 12180 horizontal; analog NTSC. Americas C-band: PAS-5 transponder 7C channel 7; D/L frequency = 3840 horizontal; digital feed: SA PowerVu MCPC MCPC Multiple Channels Per Carrier MCPC Media Center Personal Computer MCPC Mobile Computing Promoting Consortium MCPC Marine Corps Program Code MCPC Mesh-Connected Parallel Computers MCPC Multicarrier Complementary Phase-Coded MCPC Multi Channel per Carrier symbol rate 27.69 Msym/s, FEC 7/8, NTSC. Pacific Rim C-band: PAS-2 transponder 8C channel 4; D/L frequency = 3901 horizontal; digital feed: SA PowerVu MCPC symbol rate 30.8 Msym/s, FEC , NTSC. Internet Access: Live video coverage of the Galaxy IVR launch will be available at PanAmSat's Web site at http://www.panamsat.com. |
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