Spainsat
Sign in to saveSpainsat is a Spanish telecommunications satellite used for military and government communications. It allows telecommunications the different missions of the Spanish Armed forces abroad by providing coverage on a wide area of the world ranging from the United States and South America to the Middle East, including Africa and Europe.
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- Country
- Spain
- Operator
- hisdeSAT
- Mass
- 1467
- Manufacturer
- Lanteris Space Systems
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2006-03-11
- start point
- ELA-3
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
- spacecraft bus
- Lanteris 1300
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- network bands
- Ka band
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Spainsat is a Spanish telecommunications satellite used for military and government communications. It allows telecommunications the different missions of the Spanish Armed forces abroad by providing coverage on a wide area of the world ranging from the United States and South America to the Middle East, including Africa and Europe.
==Overview== The satellite belongs to Hisdesat (Spanish company participated by Hispasat (43%), Ingeniería y Servicios Aeroespaciales (30%), Airbus (15%), Indra Espacio (7%) and Sener (5%)), and its initial investment was 415 million euros. It was built by Space Systems Loral in California United States, with an expected useful life of at least 15 years. Its takeoff mass was about 3,700 kilograms. It is instrumented with several transponders in the X band and one in the K military band. It is situated on a geostationary orbit at 36,000 kilometres of altitude, 30 degrees west, over the Atlantic Ocean.
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