PARIS — Telesat will order a new television-broadcast satellite early in 2010 for customer Bell TV of Canada following an agreement between Bell and U.S. satellite operator EchoStar Corp. on the use of Telesat’s Nimiq 5 satellite, which was successfully launched Sept. 18 aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton M rocket, Telesat and EchoStar announced Sept. 17.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.