Hisdesat

Xtar sells satellite to Hisdesat, shifts to lease agreement
Xtar, a company that provides satellite communications services to the U.S. government, has sold its only satellite to Hisdesat, one of its shareholders.

Xtar, Hisdesat weigh life extension for aging satellites
Xtar may achieve a long-sought goal of adding Asia-Pacific coverage by keeping its pair of aging satellites in service well after their already-ordered replacements launch.

Airbus inks two-satellite deal with Spain’s satellite operator Hisdesat
The two new satellites will be situated in different geostationary orbital slots to operate in X, military Ka and UHF bands.

SpaceX launches pair of its demo internet satellites with Spanish radar satellite
SpaceX on Feb. 22 launched Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Spanish-owned radar-imaging satellite and two demonstration satellites for SpaceX's proposed broadband Starlink broadband constellation.The 9:17 a.m. Eastern launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carried all three spacecraft to low Earth orbit, deploying the PAZ radar satellite 11 minutes after liftoff.

Morocco satellite launch could accelerate Spanish space efforts
Morocco’s launch of its Mohammed 6-A satellite last November could accelerate Spain’s work on its SeoSat/Ingenio optical Earth-observation satellite, which is expected to launch in late 2019 or early 2020.

Hisdesat demanding refund as it dumps Dnepr for Falcon 9
Spanish satellite operator Hisdesat is trying to retrieve money it paid Kosmotras for a long-overdue Dnepr launch of a radar satellite that Hisdesat has rebooked on a SpaceX Falcon 9 for a flight late this year.