Hispasat rebrands worldwide satellite fleet


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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez

| 02 March 2016




Aiming to provide more precise information through satellite designation, Spain's Hispasat is renaming its worldwide fleet.



satelite amazonas hispasatAll satellites will use Hispasat as their primary name, except for Latin America's Amazonas, as the operator considers these are already fully established on the market. In addition to using the Hispasat brand in their name, further information will be added in reference to each satellite's orbital position and order of arrival. So, when a satellite changes location, its name will also change.

The move is in response to the group's growing number of satellites and orbital positions and is designed to maintain coherency.

Regarding the Amazonas fleet, Hispasat will change Amazonas 4A to Amazonas 4 in light of the restructuring of the Amazonas 4B project into Amazonas 5.

Once the rebranding is complete, Hispasat's active satellite fleet will be named as follows:

• Hisapsat 1C: Hispasat 84W-1
• Hispasat 1D: Hispasat 30W-4
• Hispasat 1E: Hispasat 30W-5
• Intelsat 34: Hispasat 55W-2
• Amazonas 2: Amazonas 2
• Amazonas 3: Amazonas 3
• Amazonas 4A: Amazonas 4

The satellites under construction will also get a new designation - Hispasat AG1 (Hispasat 36W-1) and Hispasat 1F (Hispasat 30W-6) - while Amazonas 5 will remain unchanged.