Discussion Thread for launch of Spainsat-NG II
NSF Threads for Spainsat-NG:
SpainSat-NG I Discussion (Late-November 2024)
SpainSat-NG II Discussion (June 2025)
Launch June 2025, on Falcon 9 from Florida, to a GTOBuilt by Airbus, based on Eurostar-Neo platform, mass of 6.100kg
HISDESAT SELECTS THE NORTH AMERICAN SPACEX FOR THE LAUNCH OF THE SPAINSAT NG SATELLITES
November 7, 2022
Hisdesat, the government satellite services company, has formalized an agreement with the North American company SpaceX to put into orbit the two SPAINSAT New Generation satellites (I and II). This is the new program developed by the Spanish company to improve secure communications and defense of the Spanish Government, allied countries and various international organizations.
The agreement, which includes the use of two Falcon 9 launchers for the launch of the two satellites, comes to continuity the agreement that the two companies sealed in 2018 for the launch of the PAZ satellite.
On this occasion, the launches will be made from either of the two complexes that SpaceX uses in Florida, Cape Canaveral or NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
The SpainSat NG I and II will replace the current SpainSat and XTAR-EUR and will incorporate the latest technological advances in communications to reinforce their capabilities, levels of security and resilience.
The first of the devices, the SpainSat NG I, will be launched into orbit in 2024, while the SpainSat NG II will be launched in 2025. They will have a useful life of about 15 years, which will be at full capacity until the threshold of 2040.
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