SmallGEO/H36W-1 liftoff replay
The first mission to use ESA’s SmallGEO platform, Hispasat 36W-1, is launched from Europe’s Spaceport in in French Guiana atop a Soyuz launcher. SmallGEO is a multipurpose satellite platform capable of accommodating a wide range of commercial telecommunications payloads and missions, from TV broadcasting to multimedia applications, Internet access and mobile or fixed services in a wide range of frequency bands. Its new, modular and flexible design boosts European industry’s ability to play a significant role in commercial satcoms by easing entry into the lower-mass telecom satellite market.
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- Guiana Space Centre
- Rocketry
- Flight
- Spacecraft
- Astronautics
- Outer space
- Spaceflight
- Space vehicles
- Space programs
- European space programmes
- Technology
- Space industry
- Spaceflight technology
- European Space Agency
- Space agencies
- Space traffic management
- Telecommunications
- Aerospace
- Space access
- Space science