- Amazonas 2 will provide a full range of
telecommunications services to Brazil, and North and South America
- It will be launched from Kourou aboard the
next Ariane 5 ECA flight
Equipped
with a payload of 64 transponders (54 active transponders in Ku-band and 10 in
C-band), Amazonas-2 will provide a full range of telecommunications services to
Brazil, and North and South America.
Evert Dudok,
CEO of Astrium Satellites, said: “We are extremely pleased to support Hispasat,
a long standing customer of Astrium, in their strategic expansion in the
American markets.”
Amazonas 2
is the fourth satellite built by Astrium for Hispasat and is based on a
Eurostar E3000 platform, the latest version of the highly successful Eurostar
series.
The
spacecraft has a launch mass of 5,450kg, a payload power of 12kW and a design
lifetime of 15 years. Amazonas 2 will join in orbit the 16 E3000s already in
service, and will be placed at the 61°W collocated with Amazonas 1 which has
operated 51 transponders at that orbital location since 2004.
About Astrium
Astrium, a
wholly owned subsidiary of EADS, is dedicated to providing civil and defence
space systems and services. In 2008, Astrium had a turnover of €4.3 billion and
15,000 employees in France, Germany, the United
Kingdom, Spain
and the Netherlands.
Its three main areas of activity are Astrium Space Transportation for launchers
and orbital infrastructure, Astrium Satellites for spacecraft and ground
segment and Astrium Services for the development and delivery of satellite
services.
EADS
is a global leader in aerospace, defence and related services. In 2008,
EADS generated revenues of €43.3 billion and employed a workforce of more
than 118, 000.
About
Hispasat
HISPASAT is now the seventh company
in the world by revenue and leader in the broadcast and distribution of content
in Spanish and Portuguese, with more than 1,100 radio and television channels,
including the content of important digital platforms of DTH television, in
Europe as well as America.
In the 2008 fiscal year, the company, with net consolidated profit of 47
million euros and a Net Debt / EBITDA of 0.7, has broken a new historic record
for the fifth year in a row in all its financial magnitudes.
Press contacts:
Daniel
Mosely (Astrium UK) Tel.:
+44 (0)1 438 77 8180
Matthieu Duvelleroy (Astrium FR) Tel.:
+33 (0) 1 77 75 80 32
Ralph Heinrich (Astrium GER) Tel.: +49 (0) 89 607 33971
Francisco Lechón (Astrium SP) Tel.:
+34 91 586 37 41
www.astrium.eads.net
