"Carries 36 Ku-band transponders, providing Internet access, television broadcast and other multimedia services in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Guam, Southeast Asia, and South Asia."
First Copernicus satellite dedicated to tracking changes in Earth?s atmosphere. Tropomi spectrometer will detect atmospheric composition at a scale of 4.3 miles by 2.2 miles (7 kilometers by 3.5 kilometers).
SES will control the 24 C-band transponders; EchoStar the 24 Ku-band transponders.
Second earth observing satellite for Venezuela. Cooperative agreement with China.