SSL to Build Hispasat's Amazonas 5 Satellite

Hispasat selected Space Systems/Loral to build the Amazonas 5 satellite. The satellite will provide a wide range of telecom services in Latin America, Hispasat said in a news release. The satellite has a high throughput Ka-band spot beam payload, it said. It also has a Ku-band beam for fixed satellite services, “which will be used for television, corporate networks and other telecommunications applications,” it said Friday.