DirecTV-9S, Optus D1 & LDREX-2

Optus is an Australian telecommunications company. Optus has the largest network of satellites in Australia and New Zealand.

The DirecTV satellite fleet is a group of communications satellites located at various geostationary orbits for the DirecTV satellite television service and HughesNet (formerly known as DirecWAY and DirecPC) internet service. DirecTV-9S is an in-orbit spare for DirecTV-4S and does not presently broadcast any channels.

The LDREX (Large-scale Deployable Reflector Experiment Model) is a small partial model antenna built to validate the design of the ETS-8's Large Deployable Antenna, and will conduct experiments to solve various technical problems that the ETS-8 is facing. LDREX lifetime is around 20 minutes.