Spanish Satellite operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace, to launch its two satellites Amazonas-4A and Hispasat AG1. They will be the 8t...
Spanish Satellite operator Hispasat has chosen Arianespace, to launch its two satellites Amazonas-4A and Hispasat AG1. They will be the 8th and 9th satellite to be launched by Arianespace. Amazonas 4A will be launched by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz rocket in early 2014 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Built by Orbital Sciences Corporation using a GEOStar 2.4 platform, the new HISPASAT Group’s satellite will be located at orbital position 61º West. The Amazonas 4A satellite will carry a payload of 24 Ku-band transponders and has a planned launch mass of 3 tons. With a lifespan of 15 years, the Amazonas 4A will enhance HISPASAT’s space capacity in Latin America to provide an extended range of communications and television services. Amazonas 4A will be the eighth Spanish satellitelaunched by Arianespace.
The launch services company first orbited Hispasat 1A and 1B in 1992and 1993, then was chosen by HISPASAT and its subsidiary HISDESAT in 2005 and 2006 for the launch of the XTAR-Eur and Spainsat satellites. Amazonas 2 and Hispasat 1E were orbited in 2009 and 2010, and Arianespace plans to launch Amazonas 3 in early 2013. Hispasat AG1 . The ninth HISPASAT’s satellite launched by Arianespace will be the Hispasat AG1, the first mission of the Small Geo platform developed by OHB Systems (Germany) with the European Space Agency (ESA) and HISPASAT. Hispasat AG1 includes the avant-garde regenerative REDSAT payload that will allow thecompany to use the satellite´s power in a more agile and efficient way, substantially increasing its transmission capacity with the subsequent reduction in communications costs.
The Hispasat AG1 satellite, that will be launched by an Ariane 5 in late 2014, will have a planned launch mass of 3.2 tons and will carry up to 20 Ku-band transponders and up to 3 Ka-band transponders, as well as innovative active antennas of reconfigurable beams.
