Hispasat is a group of Spanish communication satellites . They were developed by the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (National Institute for Technical Aeronautics) and the European Space Agency. It now belongs to Eutelsat (27.69%) and other private shareholders from Spain. First satellite to be launched was the Hispasat 1-A, in 11 September, 1992 using an Ariane 4, from the Centre Spatial Guyanais, in Kourou, (French Guiana) and put into geostationary orbit 36.000 km height of Equator at 30 ° West.
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Satellites
Past
- Hispasat 1A and 1B: analogue television. End of lifetime reached in 2003, although some transponders on 1B are still active.
Present
- Hispasat 1C: 24 transponders for uplink and downlink from/to Europe and America. Provides digital television and radio services, as well as VSAT networks.
- Hispasat 1D: 28 transponders in Ku band, they replaced Hispasat 1A and 1B for civil services.
- Amazonas: launched by a Proton rocket, located at 61ºWest with 63 transponders equaling to 36 MHz operating in Ku and C bands.
Hispasat-1C and Hispasat-1D were built by Alcatel Space, based on a Spacebus 3000B2 platform.
Future
- Amazonas-2: to be built by Astrium and delivered in orbit in 2009.[1] Arianespace will launch the satellite from the Guiana Space Center using an Ariane 5 rocket.[2]
Content
Hispasat usually carries television and radio streams from Spain (Digital+) and Portugal (TV Cabo), as well as Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries from Latin America.
References
- ^ Astrium Wins Hispasat Contract To Build Amazonas-2 Satellite. SpaceDaily (June 08, 2007).
- ^ Arianespace to launch Amazonas-2 for Hispasat. Arianespace (December 13, 2007).
See also
- SES Astra
- ESOA.
External links
- Hispasat official website
- ESOA website.
- Taquilla Guide
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