On 31 July 2013, Eutelsat Communications announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire 100% of Satélites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) for $1,142 million. Based in Mexico, Satmex operates three communications satellites at 113.0° West (Satmex 6), 114.9° West (Satmex 5) and 116.8° West (Satmex 8) in the Geostationary orbital arc. These satellitest cover 90% of the population of the Americas. The day before, Eutelsat had ordered the communications satelllite Eutelsat 65a from Space Systems/Loral. This will operate over the 65° West position. The acquisitions are part of a strategy to become dominant in Latin America.
Eutelsat purchases Mexican satellite operator Satmex along with its three satellites
About Seradata
Seradata produce the renowned SpaceTrak Launch & Satellite Database. Trusted by 100 of the world’s leading Space organisations, SpaceTrak is a fully queryable database used for market analysis, failure/risk assessment, spectrum analysis and space situational awareness (SSA).
For more information go to www.seradata.com/spacetrak
Related Articles
While for the most part SpaceX Starlink satellites have proven to be reliable - or at least reliable enough to Read more
The Boeing/Lockheed Martin owned launch provider, the United Launch Alliance (ULA) which mainly specialises in US military launches, successfully launched Read more
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 49 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, USA. The flight lifted-off Read more
The SpaceX Transporter-3 rideshare mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1525 GMT, 13 January carrying over 100 satellites. The Read more
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, current commander of Expedition 66, and Peytr Dubrov, made a spacewalk from the International Space Station Read more
Sentinel-1B, a key Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite of the ESA/EU Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme, has failed in Read more
Intelsat has ordered two geostationary (GEO) satellites with new "software-defined payloads" from Thales Alenia Space (TAS). The contract announced on Read more
Taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) aboard the Chinese Space Station (CSS) conducted a manual remote undocking involving the unberthing from the forward Read more