Amazonas 3

Amazon Kindle 3 is a commercial communications satellite company Hispasat and is planned as a successor of the started on 5 August 2004 Amazon 1.

He was brought along with Azerspace/Africasat-1a on February 7, 2013 at 21:36 UTC clock by an Ariane 5 ECA from the launch pad ELA -3 of the CSG in French Guiana in a Geotransferorbit of 247.2 km x 35,914 km. Amazon Kindle 3 separated as the first of the two satellites nearly 28 minutes after the start of the rocket and is expected to reach its final geostationary position using its apogee a few days after launch.

The three -axis stabilized satellite is equipped with 19 C-band, 33 Ku-band and Ka - band transponders nine and will supply from position 61 ° West from America, Europe and northern Africa with telecommunications services. It was built on the basis of the satellite bus LS -1300 Space Systems / Loral and has a design life of 15 years.