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Hisdesat ordered two SpainSat next-generation satellites from Airbus Defence and Space to replace Xtar-Eur and SpainSat in 2023.
Xtar is deciding with partner Hisdesat how to keep the SpainSat and Xtar-Eur satellites flying after their replacements launch 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.