Hispasat

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.

atellites

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. [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1992-060A]
*Hispasat 1B was launched 1993-07-22, also by an Ariane 4. [http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1993-048A]

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 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. [cite web | url = http://www.spacemart.com/reports/Astrium_Wins_Hispasat_Contract_To_Build_Amazonas_2_Satellite_999.html | title = Astrium Wins Hispasat Contract To Build Amazonas-2 Satellite | date = June 08, 2007 | publisher = SpaceDaily] Arianespace will launch the satellite from the Guiana Space Centre using an Ariane 5 rocket. [cite web | url = http://www.arianespace.com/site/news/releases/presrel07_12_21.html | title = Arianespace to launch Amazonas-2 for Hispasat | date = December 13, 2007 | publisher = Arianespace]

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

See also

* SES Astra
* ESOA.

External links

* [http://www.hispasat.com/default.aspx?sectionsId=1&lang=en Hispasat official website]
* [http://www.esoa.net/home/index.php ESOA website] .
* [http://www.eurotvguide.net Taquilla Guide]
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