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  1. International Telecommunications Satellite
  2. Organization, established 1964 to operate a
  3. worldwide system of communications
  4. satellites. More than 100 countries are
  5. members of Intelsat, with headquarters in
  6. Washington DC. Intelsat satellites are
  7. stationed in geostationary orbit (maintaining
  8. their positions relative to the Earth) over
  9. the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The
  10. first Intelsat satellite was Early Bird,
  11. launched 1965.
  12.