Hispasat

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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.

Contents 1 Satellites 1.1 Past 1.2 Present 1.3 Future 2 Content 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Satellites

[edit] Past

• Hispasat 1A and 1B: analogue television. End of lifetime reached in 2003, although some transponders on 1B are still active.
• Hispasat 1A was launched 1992-09-10 by an Ariane 4 rocket.[1]
• Hispasat 1B was launched 1993-07-22, also by an Ariane 4.[2]

[edit] 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 K_u band, they replaced Hispasat 1A and 1B for civil services.
• Amazonas: launched by a Proton rocket, located at 61º West 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.

[edit] Future

• Amazonas-2: to be built by Astrium and delivered in orbit in 2009.^[1] Arianespace will launch the satellite from the Guiana Space Centre using an Ariane 5 rocket.^[2]

[edit] 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.

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• SES Astra
• ESOA.

[edit] External links

• Hispasat official website
• ESOA website
• Hispasat footprint(s) at SatBeams
• Amazonas footprint(s) at SatBeams
• Location: 0°0′N 30°00′W / 0°N 30°W / 0; -30Coordinates: 0°0′N 30°00′W / 0°N 30°W / 0; -30