Autonomous system
AS11919 LORAL-SKYNET-AR
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
Telesat Network Services Inc
enterprise legacy
LORAL-SKYNET-AR is registered to Telesat Network Services Inc., the US arm of the Canadian satellite operator Telesat, which absorbed Loral Skynet when the two merged. ARIN has the ASN under a Bethesda, Maryland address, assigned in 1999 — and unusually for this range, the handle's history is exactly what it looks like.
What it's used for
The routing is a single announcement: 202.161.128.0/19, 8,192 addresses, no IPv6, and 1 observed neighbour. One prefix reached through one upstream is the smallest viable presence an AS can have in the table, and it says nothing about the size of the business behind it.
ARIN registers the /19 to Loral Orion Network Systems rather than to Telesat. That mismatch is corporate history, not a third-party leak: Loral acquired Orion Network Systems in 1998, Loral Skynet's assets later transferred to Telesat, and the network object simply never had its org name rewritten. It is the intra-group, post-acquisition pattern — the registrant and the holder are the same lineage, several renamings apart.
The block itself sits in 202/8, the Asia-Pacific range, which fits the space's origin as satellite-delivered internet reaching that region; the -AR in the handle is an internal label, not a country.
Notable
What the /19 carries today is not something the evidence establishes. No reverse DNS was returned on the addresses sampled, and a single prefix behind a single neighbour supports no inference about its current tenants. The honest position is that the holder is confidently identified and the current use is not.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS30362 | Hawaii Pacific Teleport LP | 60 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-25, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 8.19K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States of America | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS11919- Registry name
- LORAL-SKYNET-AR
- Registrant
- Telesat Network Services Inc
- Abuse contact
- sswitenky@telesat.com
- Registered
- 1999-02-04
- Last changed
- 2012-02-24
- Allocation
- assigned
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 1 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS11919
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 0% registered · 0 of 1 announcements
- Route objects
- 182 naming AS11919
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 443 networks and 1,779 prefixes, as published 2026-10-24. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere