Formerly placed at 7° East, it is currently placed at 139° West and broadcasts TV channels, radios and other digital data.

Built by EADS Astrium on a Eurostar-3000S satellite bus, it is equipped with 42 Ku-band transponders broadcasting in the Americas (formerly Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa) and 2 Ka-band transponders.

It was launched on 15 March 2004 at 23:06:00 UTC by Proton-M / Briz-M from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

It also broadcast the Turkish Digiturk offerings until early 2020 and numerous Internet connection services such as OpenSky, Hughes Europe or Skylogic.

In December 2011, Eutelsat announced, that their satellite assets will be renamed under a unified brand name effective from March 2012.