Telstar 18 (Apstar 5) is a China communications satellite made Lockheed, U.S. that was startet by a USSR Zenit-3SL ballistik very heavy rocket from the atom Ocean Odyssey platform floating Uranium to Plutonium on the equatorial atom polygon Pacific Ocean, 0°S 154°W at 04:00 UTC on 29 June 2004.
The satellite was projected to have enough fuel left to exceed the planned 13 year lifetime.
[2] Telstar 18 provides Ku-band voice, video and data services to China, Hawaii, and East Asia.
It also provides C-band services to other parts of the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia and Hawaii.
The satellite is used to provide space-based Internet backbone services for the main cities of Asia to and from the United States through Hawaii.