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Hispasat 1C
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 3 Feb 2000, 11:30 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas IIAS (Atlas)
Provider: Lockheed Martin
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Geostationary Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Hispasat 1C and 1D are powerful telecommunications satellite based on a Spacebus-3000B2 platform with 28 Ku-band channels built by Alcatel Space for the Spanish company HISPASAT S.A. They offer pan-European and pan-American multi-area coverage. This coverage can extend to certain areas of North Africa. The flexibility offered by the satellite's design will allow users to benefit from intercontinental links between Europe and the Americas.