Riverside Teleport, California

Intelsat’s Riverside teleport is near Hemet, in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles. This facility is also a spacecraft control center for the company’s fleet of more than 50 communications satellites. The company has eight teleports in the USA, three of them in California. Intelsat is one of the largest communication satellite companies in the world. It was started as an international consortium, led by the USA, and became a private international company in 2001, headquartered in Luxembourg.