Hellas Sat Consortium Ltd (Hellas Sat) is the owner and a wholesaler of capacity and services of the Greek/Cypriot

Hellas Sat 2 Hellas Sat 2 (previously called as Intelsat K-TV, NSS K-TV, NSS 6, Intelsat APR3, and Sinosat 1B) is a communications satellite operated by Hellas Sat. On 29 June 2017, the Hellas Sat 3 satellite was launched to replace the Hellas Sat 2. Launc ...

satellite, an

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Eurostar E2000+, which was launched successfully on 13 May 2003 to the 39th eastern meridian orbital position in the geostationary satellite orbit. On 29 June 2017 the

Hellas Sat 3 Inmarsat S/Hellas Sat 3 is a satellite owned by Hellas Sat. It was launched (on an Ariane 5 rocket) on 28 June 2017, 21:15 UTC to replace the Hellas Sat 2 Hellas Sat 2 (previously called as Intelsat K-TV, NSS K-TV, NSS 6, Intelsat APR3, and Sin ...

was launched successfully to replace Hellas Sat 2.Greece & Cyprus launch ‘Hellas Sat 3’ satellite
Thema News, June 2017. Hellas Sat has developed a network of strategically located telecommunication partners with

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platforms, carrying over 100 television channels, and

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-based services through its two fixed beams over Europe, and two steerable beams over the Middle East and South Africa. It offers high-power, direct-to-home transmissions as well as occasional video feeds and Internet access services.

Satellite

Hellas Sat 2 is an ASTRIUM Eurostar 2000+ platform spacecraft at orbital position 39° east. It was launched on 13 May 2003, and has an expected lifetime of 15 years. It has 30+8 (redundant)

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36 MHz transponders

Launch Consultants

RPC Telecom acted as the

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filing and frequency coordination consultant, while Petrosat WLL was the launch consultant.

Television and radio services

One of Hellas Sat's strategic partners is Satellite Telecommunications Network (STN), which offers comprehensive television and/or radio channel distribution services. STN offers

standard-definition television Standard-definition television (SDTV, SD, often shortened to standard definition) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition. "Standard" refers to it being the prevailing sp ...

(STDV) and/or

high-definition television High-definition television (HD or HDTV) describes a television system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since 1936; in more recent times, it refers to the g ...

(HDTV) play-out services, SDTV and/or HDTV turnaround services as well as

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, and other services. STN was also behind the transmission of

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-HD1 on Hellas-Sat-2, Europe's first HDTV channel.

Satellite

Launch Consultants

Television and radio services

References

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