Loral Space & Communications is one of the leading satellite communications companies. It owns and operates a fleet of telecommunications satellites and manages a global network that integrates its satellites with terrestrial facilities and has the rights to numerous well-positioned orbital slots. Managed by its Loral Skynet division, the fleet provides satellite capacity and platforms for use by television and cable networks to broadcast video programming and by communication service providers, resellers, corporate and government customers for broadband data transmission, Internet services and other value-added communications services. The company trades on NASDAQ under they symbol LORL. It is headquartered in New York.