AS11919 LORAL-SKYNET-AR

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.