Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A
Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. is a Spanish government satellite services operator founded in 2001, primarily serving the defense, security, intelligence, and foreign affairs sectors. As a satellite service provider, Hisdesat offers secure governmental satellite communications using X, Ka, and UHF bands, and operates the PAZ radar Earth observation satellite. Key partners and customers include the Spanish Ministry of Defense, ESA, Airbus Defence and Space, and various governmental agencies internationally, including the U.S. Department of Defense through its XTAR LLC partnership. Hisdesat's activities include satellite operation, secure communication services, and earth observation. Keywords associated with Hisdesat are government satellite services, secure communications, earth observation, PAZ satellite, SpainSat NG, and X-band/Ka-band services.
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The 2020-11-16 Vega launch failure destroyed Hisdesat’s SEOSAT-Ingenio and the TARANIS spacecraft built by CNES.
Hisdesat plans to launch two SpainSat NG satellites, with one scheduled for late 2023 and the second scheduled for 2024.
Xtar has a memorandum of understanding with Hisdesat to use capacity on the SpainSat NG satellites that Airbus is building.
Xtar will continue to provide service using the 15-year-old Xtar-Eur and a payload it leases on Hisdesat’s 14-year-old SpainSat until both are superseded by the 1,600,000,000 EUR SpainSat NG system.
Airbus Defence and Space performs interferometry by revisiting locations in four to seven days with TerraSAR‑X and Tandem‑X operating in a constellation with Hisdesat’s Paz satellite.
Xtar leases a payload on Hisdesat’s SpainSat satellite that was launched in 2006.
Xtar is deciding with partner Hisdesat how to keep the SpainSat and Xtar-Eur satellites flying after their replacements launch in 2023.
Hisdesat ordered two SpainSat next-generation satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to replace Xtar-Eur and SpainSat in 2023.
The SpainSat Next Generation satellites will provide military communications for the Spanish Ministry of Defence, which holds a 30% stake in Hisdesat.
Airbus finished 2019 with six GEO orders, including three for Inmarsat, one for Measat, and two to be built as lead partner with Thales Alenia Space for Hisdesat.
Thales Alenia Space has won three of 10 commercial satellite orders in 2019: one from Indonesian operator PSN for the broadband satellite Satria and two SpainSat NG satellites for Hisdesat to be co-built with Airbus Defence and Space.
Hisdesat has agreed to buy two satellites from Airbus to replace aging military communications spacecraft.
Hisdesat is seeking to increase satellite-based communications capacity for Spain’s military and to support NATO requirements.
Airbus currently has three radar satellites—TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and the Spanish partner Hisdesat’s PAZ—which will be operated in a constellation.
SpaceX launched two prototype Starlink satellites in February on a Falcon 9 mission that first deployed the Paz radar satellite for Spanish operator Hisdesat.