Spanish Group Hispasat to Place Satellite in Space

Spanish group Hispasat to place satellite in space

MADRID, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — A telecommunications satellite of Spanish group Hispasat will be sent Thursday to the space and will be the apparatus with the biggest capacity over Latin America.

The rocket carrying satellite Amazonas will be launched Thursday at 00:30 hours local time (2230 GMT), from the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan, said commercial and service director of Hispasat Miguel Panduro.

The satellite will reduce the digital gap between Europe and Latin America, and will serve as a communications bridge between the two continents, he added. The Amazonas will double the space telecommunications capacity of Hispasat, he added.

The Amazonas, the fifth Hispasat satellite, will fly a Brazilian flag and will move along an orbit belonging to the South American country.

This satellite uses modern technology for the development of multimedia systems, Panduro said.

Satellite communications is indispensable for Latin America, in order to link isolated zones of the region, namely the Amazons, he said.

Hispasat’s executive said the first client of the satellite will be the Brazilian telephone-communications firm Telemar, which provides services to Brazil, including the Amazon region.