EUTELSAT 65 West A now fully functional

by KingsMan Wed May 11, 2016 8:40 pm

The EUTELSAT 65 West A satellite, launched on 9 March, is now fully powered up and ready for service across Brazil and Latin America.

Eutelsat 2 May 2016The satellite is designed to target markets across Latin America and its Ku-band payload is optimised for direct-to-home (DTH) reception. It also features transatlantic C-band coverage for cross-continental video contribution and distribution.

Eutelsat is anchoring EUTELSAT 65 WEST A in the Brazilian broadcasting market with an antenna seeding programme designed to ensure that pay-TV and cable operators across the country are equipped to receive channels delivered by the new satellite. Already Eutelsat and Space Systems Loral (SSL) have successfully carried out transmissions in Extremely High Frequencies (EHF) using an experimental payload flown into space on the craft.

In order to strengthen support for clients in the Americas, Eutelsat has opened a network operations centre (NOC) in Santana do Parnaiba in the state of Sao Paulo. The teleport hosting the NOC is also equipped with resources for telemetry, command and ranging (TCR) of EUTELSAT 65 West A and will include radiofrequency and video monitoring tools for service quality assurance of C, Ku and Ka-band services provided through seven Eutelsat satellites providing coverage of the Americas.

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