Bangkok--14 Jul--Shin Satellite
All customers successfully transferred from Thaicom 3 to Thaicom 5
Thailand: Shin Satellite announces that its new satellite, Thaicom 5, has now been fully tested in orbit following its launch on 27 May (28 May in Bangkok) 2006. All systems are now operating normally.
Following completion of in-orbit testing, the Company successfully transferred all the customers on its Thaicom 3 satellite to the new Thaicom 5 satellite on July 13.
With the transfer of customers completed successfully, the satellite is now in commercial service. Shin Satellite, through Thaicom 5, will offer conventional broadcasting and telecommunications services, and introduce technology for broadcasting high definition television to the market for the first time in the Indochina region.
Thaicom 5 is a Spacebus 3000A model by Alcatel Alenia Space of France and has a footprint covering four continents.