Hispasat 1C, also known as Hispasat 30W-3 and Hispasat 84W-1, was a Spanish

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which was operated by Hispasat. It was constructed by Alcatel Space and is based on the Spacebus-3000B2

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. Launch occurred on 3 February 2000, at 23:30. The launch was contracted by ILS, and used an Atlas IIAS carrier rocket flying from SLC-36B at Cape Canaveral. It had a mass of , and an expected service life of 15 years. Following its launch and on-orbit testing, it was placed in geostationary orbit at 30° West, from where it provided communications services to Europe and the

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. In 2014, after an agreement between Hispasat and

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, the satellite was relocated at 84º West and renamed as Hispasat 84W-1. Finally, on June 2, 2017, the satellite was reorbited to a

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, having had a service life of 17 years.

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