Hispasat: Information from Answers.com

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.

1 Satellites
2 Content
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

Satellites

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 Sep 9 1992 by an Ariane 4 rocket.[1]
Hispasat 1B was launched Jul 22 1993, also by an Ariane 4.[2]

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.

Hispasat-1C and Hispasat-1D were built by Alcatel Space, based on a Spacebus 3000B2 platform.

Amazonas: launched by a Proton rocket, located at 61º West with 63 transponders equaling to 36 MHz operating in Ku and C bands.

Amazonas 2

Amazonas 2 was built by Astrium based on its Eurostar E3000 satellite bus, for on-orbit delivery in 2009.^[1] Arianespace launched the satellite on October 1, 2009 from ELA-3 at the Guiana Space Centre using an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle. The same launch vehicle also carried the COMSATBw-1 communications satellite which will be used by the Bundeswehr for secure military communications.^[2]

Amazonas 2 will be operated from at 61° West, providing relay services with 54 Ku band and 10 C band transponders.

Future

None at this time.

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, such as Cotelsat.