ESA video shows SmallGEO STM in testing at ESTEC - ESA CSC: Connectivity & Secure Communications

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EVENTS

HydRON – User Workshop

January 25, 2022

Publication date

03 Dec 2012

SmallGEO is part of the next generation of modular and flexible telecommunications platforms. It is being developed by ESA in partnership with a European consortium headed by the German manufacturer OHB-Systems. Spanish operator Hispasat will be the first to use SmallGEO for its Hispasat AG-1 satellite.

Launch is planned for 2014.

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