Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Amazonas 5
Amazonas 5 is a Ku- and Ka-band communications satellite for broadband and telecommunications services in Latin America.
HISPASAT ordered the Amazonas 5 satellite in December 2014 from SSL. It will replace the performance loss of the Amazonas 4A satellite and also replace the cancelled Amazonas 4B satellite.
The satellite will be built on SSL's SSL-1300 bus and carries 24 transponders in the Ku band, directed a Brazil and the remaining Latin American countries, and 34 spot beams in Ka-band distributed throughout Latin America. It is to be placed at will be located at 61° west.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,900.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Location
Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
2017
57th orbital launch attempt
Proton-M
101st mission
3rd mission of 2017
90th successful mission
11th consecutive successful mission