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GEO Satellite

Eutelsat 9B GEO

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Launch date

20 August 2015

Position

9° East

Manufacturer

Thales Alenia Space

Operator

Eutelsat

Launch operator

ILS

Launch vehicle

Proton M/Breeze

Expected lifetime

15+ Years

Region

Europe Region

Eutelsat 9B significantly expands and diversifies resources at Eutelsat’s 9° East location for high-growth video markets across Europe. Capacity is spread across five footprints, with frequency reuse significantly increasing overall bandwidth.

A pan-European footprint delivers a wide coverage for channels seeking maximum reach into satellite homes and to terrestrial head-ends, providing connectivity to cable networks across the whole of Europe. Five regional footprints address high-growth digital TV-markets in Germany, Greece, Italy and the Nordics with the Baltics and Ukraine.

Pay-TV platforms and national DTT programmes appreciate this regional footprint model which enables them to efficiently address linguistic markets, while in parallel, leverage reception from the HOTBIRD neighbourhood with off-the-shelf dual-feed dishes.

The satellite was constructed by Thales Alenia Space and launched on August 20th, 2015 on a Proton M rocket operated by launch operator ILS.

GEO Satellite

Eutelsat 9B

succesfull


EUTELSAT 9B under construction
EUTELSAT 9B satellite mechanical tests
Anik F1R satellite shipment at Toulouse airport
EUTELSAT 9B by ILS Proton launch vehicle

GEO Satellite

Eutelsat 9B

succesfull


GEO Satellite

Eutelsat 9B

succesfull


E9B Ku-band Extended Greece downlink coverage
E9B Ku-band German Al A downlink coverage
E9B Ku-band German Alt Ge downlink coverage
E9B Ku-band Italy downlink coverage
E9B Ku-band Nordic Baltic downlink coverage
E9B Ku-band Widebeam downlink coverage