Hispasat, a Spanish satellite operator owned by Indra Sistemas, is a key player in the space communications industry. It provides a range of services, including broadcasting, broadband, and data transmission, primarily serving Europe and the Americas. Hispasat also engages in innovative projects like quantum key distribution and collaborates with partners such as Thales Alenia Space, ESA, and various telecommunications companies to expand connectivity and bridge the digital divide.
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LeoSat anticipated that Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat would complete LeoSat’s $50,000,000 Series A after each made initial investments, with Jsat investing in 2017 and Hispasat investing in 2018, but neither completed the funding.
Spanish power company Red Eléctrica purchased Hispasat in 2019.
ABS, Hispasat, and Embratel Star One each spent close to $250,000,000 building and launching satellites designed at least in part to serve the U.S. market, according to testimony at the hearing.
Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat made equal, undisclosed investments toward LeoSat’s Series A, which was downsized from $100,000,000 to $50 million, and reneged on a plan to increase their investments.
LeoSat intended to reduce the constellation’s projected $3,500,000,000 price tag to close to $3,000,000,000 under pressure from investors Hispasat and Sky Perfect Jsat.
ABS, Hispasat, and Star One had some U.S. C-band coverage but had no U.S. customers using that spectrum as of fall 2018.
EDRS-C is the second SmallGEO satellite built by OHB, following Hispasat-36W-1 which launched in early 2017 on an Arianespace Soyuz.
Red Eléctrica planned in February to buy Abertis’ 89.7 percent stake in Hispasat for €949 million.
Hispasat plans to add another 10 trial Wi-Fi locations across Colombia.
SSL is using an approach for hosting S5 on Nusantara Satu that was honed during a DARPA experiment that carried a smallsat aboard Hispasat-30W-6.
SSL deployed a previously unpublicized DARPA smallsat from Hispasat 30W-6 using the PODS system in the prior year.
Eutelsat divested Spanish fleet operator Hispasat for 302,000,000 EUR.
An earlier SSL-built communications satellite, Hispasat 30W-6, deployed a smallsat after launch using SSL’s Payload Orbital Delivery System (PODS).
Abertis is divesting from Hispasat as part of a strategy to become a pure toll-road operator.
Red Eléctrica confirmed interest in Hispasat in 2017 at the same time Abertis was purchasing Eutelsat’s stake in Hispasat.
Red Eléctrica Corporación agreed on 2019-02-12 to buy out Abertis’ 89.7 percent stake in Hispasat for 949,000,000 EUR.
Hispasat reported 235,000,000 EUR in revenue for 2017 and profits of 80,500,000 EUR.
Red Eléctrica requires approval from Spain’s Council of Ministers and other regulatory bodies to complete the Hispasat acquisition.
Hispasat’s 30W-6 communications satellite launched in March 2018 included more than 200 additively manufactured metal and polymer components, including 72 titanium nodes in an antenna tower nearly three times the size of JCSAT-110A’s antenna tower.
Hispasat operates 11 satellites and reports that Amazonas-3 provides C-band coverage of the United States.