SATV has its own fully redundant state of the art satellite earth station, which is used to broadcast SATV’s digital signal to Apstar 7. The satellite has a footprint across Asia and Africa and well into Europe.
Satellite down-link parameters
| Satellite | Apstar 7 |
| Orbital Location | 76.5 E |
| Transponder | C10A |
| Down-link Polarization | Horizontal |
| Modulation | QPSK |
| Down-link Frequency | 3990 MHz C-Band |
| FEC | 3/4 |
| Carrier Type | MPEG-4/DVB-S2(HD) |
| Symbol Rate | 4300Kb/s |