[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 satellite has safely passed SES’s AMC-11 satellite after Intelsat lost control of the spacecraft April 5 due to a solar storm anomaly, Intelsat confirmed June 1.
   Intelsat said interference avoidance efforts were successful, with no customer transmission interruptions. Intelsat supported SES during its avoidance maneuvers by providing signal turnaround services at Intelsat’s Clarksburg, Md., teleport via a 19-meter uplink tracking antenna, which was used by all of SES’s AMC-11 customers.
   The extremely high-signal directivity provided by the 19-meter antenna focused more carrier energy directly to AMC-11 while reducing that same carrier energy away from Galaxy 15.
   Intelsat said it expects Galaxy 15 to continue drifting eastward, exiting AMC-11’s orbital box June 7.