Hispasat boosts satellite control across LATAM


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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez

| 04 February 2016




Spain's Indra has been selected to expand the terrestrial control network of Hispasat's Latin American satellites in a €5 million deal.



During 2016 and 2017, Indra is to build up four stations along with other infrastructures to monitor and control the satellites Hispasat 1F and Amazonas 5, both scheduled for launch in 2017 and aimed at improving direct-to-home (DTH) pay-TV capacity across Latin America.

The Spanish technology provider is to build two control stations in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) and two more in Spain (Canary Islands and Madrid) and will also update several of the current Latin American stations.

The Amazonas 5 will target the increasing demand for satellite video capacity in LATAM.

The Hispasat 1F, which is set to replace the 1D satellite, will add more Ku-band capacity for Brazil and the Andean region – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – in addition to increasing connectivity between the Americas and Europe.

The agreement strengthens the Hispasat-Indra collaboration, which has been going on for over 20 years. During this time, Indra has deployed control infrastructures for the Amazonas 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the Hispasat 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E.