Hot Bird 13C

Eutelsat Hot Bird 13C (former Hotbird 9) is a commercial geostationary communications satellite of Eutelsat.

The satellite is identical to Hotbird 8 (now Eutelsat Hotbird 13B), which was launched in August 2006. The award of the contract to EADS Astrium in May 2006.

The satellite was launched by Eutelsat Hotbird 9 as 20 December 2008 at 22:35 UTC by an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre together with Eutelsat W2M into a geostationary transfer orbit. He was placed 13 ° Ost013 to the position. The by then exploiting dividend Hotbird 7A there was transferred to 9 ° East, where he replaced the 9 12 year old Euro Bird and received the designation Euro Bird 9A.

Hotbird 9 supplied Europe, North Africa and the Middle East with digital TV and radio programs in the direct satellite reception.

As Eutelsat March 1, 2012 changed the designation system of satellite, Hotbird 9 was named the Eutelsat Hot Bird 13C according to its orbital position.

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