Geostationary
HISPASAT 30W-6
Commercial Communications / Broadband · Hispasat / Spain
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Hispasat's next-generation Americas satellite providing Ka-band high-throughput broadband alongside traditional Ku-band broadcasting capacity. Hispasat 30W-6 serves the growing Latin American demand for satellite internet as terrestrial infrastructure fails to reach the full population. Spain's national investment in satellite communications reflects both commercial opportunity and the soft-power benefit of providing connectivity infrastructure to Spanish-speaking nations across the hemisphere.
Its orbit
- Orbit
- Geostationaryappears to hang motionless over one spot on the equator
- Altitude
- 22,233–22,250 mi (35,781–35,809 km)
- Inclination
- 0.0°
- One orbit
- 23.9 hoursabout one orbit a day
- NORAD ID
- 43228
- Int’l designator
- 2018-023A
- Launched
- 2018
Orbital elements from CelesTrak, as of 21 Sep 2026.
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