HISPASAT has reached several agreements that allow completion of the necessary infrastructure for the entry into service of the Amazonas Nexus, which was launched into space on February 6 from Cape Canaveral.
The company has contracted Isotropic to build two gateways in the USA, one in the state of Nebraska and the other in New Mexico. The Amazonas Nexus ground segment will also be reinforced with the start-up of a third gateway at the INTA facilities in Gran Canaria. These three gateways, designed and developed by HISPASAT, are in addition to the one already deployed at the teleport of HISPAMAR (the Group’s subsidiary in Brazil) in Rio de Janeiro. These deployments, to be operational next July, will be able to provide uplink and housing services to those customers interested in leasing space capacity on this satellite to operate it with their own baseband equipment.
HISPASAT will also provide a wholesale managed service over the Amazonas Nexus coverage. To do so, it will operate Gilat’s state-of-the-art SkyEdge IV platform, designed specifically for highly flexible satellites such as this one. This platform will enable HISPASAT to provide its customers with the required connectivity wherever and whenever needed for air and maritime mobility services, cellular backhaul of 4G and 5G networks, corporate broadband internet access or government communications.
The Amazonas Nexus will cover the entire American continent, Greenland and the northern and southern Atlantic corridors. This satellite represents a new era for the services provided by HISPASAT, as it has a state-of-the-art Digital Transparent Processor (DTP) that will allow it to increase its geographic flexibility in the event of changes in the commercial scenarios initially proposed.
