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 Kouru, (French Guiana) and put into geostationary orbit 36.000 km height of Equator at 30 ° West.

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[edit] Satellites

[edit] Past

  • Hispasat 1A and 1B: analogue television. End of lifetime reached in 2003, although some transponders on 1B were active as of 2004.

[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 Ku band, they replaced Hispasat 1A and 1B for civil services.

[edit] Future

  • Amazonas: it will be located at 61ºWest and will have 63 transponders equaling to 36 MHz operating in Ku and C bands.

Hispasat usually carries television and radio streams from Spain (Digital Plus) and Portugal (TV Cabo), as well as Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries from Latin America.

See also: SES Astra, ESOA.

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