With a fleet of 29 satellites located at 20 prime locations in geostationary orbit, Eutelsat operates a world-leading satellite infrastructure. Eutelsat's satellites are a preferred choice for telecom and IP companies for fast and costefficient delivery of broadcast and broadband services to terrestrial headends.
ATLANTIC BIRD™ SATELLITES
The unparalleled multi-satellite route linking the Americas & Europe, the Middle-East & Africa
With four satellites, featuring unprecedented in-orbit mutual back-up capabilities - ATLANTIC BIRD™ 1 (Ku-band, 12.5° West), ATLANTIC BIRD™ 2 (Ku-band, 8° West), ATLANTIC BIRD™ 3 (Ku and C-band, 5° West) and ATLANTIC BIRD™ 7 (Ku-band, 7° West) - the ATLANTIC BIRD™ satellites form one of the strongest satellite neighbourhoods for trans-Atlantic video, IP and data applications.
Fully integrated with Eutelsat's pan-European, Middle East and North African market reach, the ATLANTIC BIRD™ satellites provide American video professionals with seamless access to over 122 million homes via bundled turnarounds on Eutelsat's leading DTH orbital positions. It also allows Internet content and service providers to extend their reach, with a choice gateway for direct access to the heart of the Internet backbone.
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
12.5° West |
Ku-Band |
Between Europe, Northern Africa and the Near Middle East and the Americas |
Data Broadband, |
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8° West |
Ku-Band |
Between the US Eastern Seaboard or South America to Western and Central Europe and the Gulf |
Data Broadband, |
|
5° West |
Ku-Band |
Ku-band: Europe, Eastern USA, Mediterranean Region, Middle East |
Video adcast, |
|
7° West |
Ku-Band |
Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region |
Direct-to-Home, |
W SERIES SATELLITES
The W satellites are a series of telecommunications, television and multimedia satellites providing flexible coverage and bandwidth options for consumer and business services in Europe, Asia and Africa. Services include Internet, public telephony, business networks, satellite news gathering, television and radio programme broadcasting and distribution.
The satellites serve a wide range of business users, including telecommunication companies, radio and television broadcasters, international news agencies, manufacturing industry and multimedia service providers
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
10° East |
Ku-Band |
Ku-band: Europe, North & South Africa, Middle East, and the Indian Ocean islands |
Data/Broadband, |
|
16° East |
Ku-Band |
Central & Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Basin & Middle East, the Indian Ocean islands |
Video Broadcast |
|
7° East |
Ku-Band |
Sub Saharan & Pan Africa, Europe and Mediterranean |
Data/Broadband, |
|
36° East |
Ku-Band |
Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Europe to Russia/Siberia & CIS, |
DTH TV, Radio Broadcast, Internet Services |
|
70.5° East |
Ku-Band |
Western Europe, Middle East and Central Asia |
Data/Broadband, |
|
21.5° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, North & North West Africa, Middle East and Central Asia |
Data Broadband, |
|
36° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, Russia, the CIS, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan & South Africa |
Telecoms, |
|
48° East |
Ku-Band |
Central Europe, Middle East and Central Asia |
broadcasting and multimedia services |
EUROBIRD™ SATELLITES
The EUROBIRD™ satellites provide broadcasting and telecommunication services primarily to the Western and Central European region from the orbital positions of 4, 9, 16, 25.5, 28.5 and, 33 degrees East.
Delivering consumer-oriented broadcast digital television and multimedia services, the EUROBIRD™ satellites complement the services provided by the HOT BIRD™ satellite system at 13° East. Like the HOT BIRD™ satellites, the EUROBIRD™ satellites serve millions of individuals in their homes, either directly or via cable distribution networks.
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
28.5° East |
Ku-Band |
West & Central Europe |
Radio & Video Broadcast |
|
25.5° East |
Ku-Band |
South-East Europe, Turkey, Libya, Egypt, the Caucasus & the Near and Middle East |
Video & Radio Broadcast, |
|
33° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe and Turkey |
Broadband (2 way internet), |
|
4° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, the Atlantic Islands, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia |
Video/Radio Broadcast, |
|
9° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, North Africa and Middle East |
Video/Radio Broadcast, |
|
16° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, North Africa, Middle East & the Indian Ocean Islands |
DTH TV, |
KA-SAT SATELLITE
The Ka-Sat satellite is configured with over 80 spotbeams, with a network of ten ground stations connecting to the Internet backbone .
The KA-SAT programme is to deliver efficient resources for the mass-market delivery of the Tooway™ consumer broadband service, targeted at users across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin located beyond range of ADSL networks. With a throughput of over 70 Gigabits per second, KA-SAT will be capable of serving over one million users who expect bandwidth and prices comparable to ADSL2 performance.
Eutelsat will also drive the development of satellite-based consumer broadband services with triple-play capability, by combining broadband services in the Ka-band, through KA-SAT, with the reception of TV channels in the Ku-band. In order to facilitate the availability of high-performance triple-play equipment at competitive prices, Eutelsat will deploy the KA-SAT satellite to 9° East. This deployment will simplify production of dual-feed antennas transmitting and receiving broadband services in the Ka-band from 9° East, and receiving television in the Ku-band from Eutelsat’s flagship HOT BIRD™ neighbourhood at 13° East.
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
9° East |
Ka-Band |
West & Central Europe, the Mediterranean Basin |
Broadband Service & Tooway™ |
HOTBIRD™ SATELLITES
The HOT BIRD™ satellites provide full coverage of Europe and the Middle East, and also parts of Africa and Asia. This is the prime position in Europe for reception of consumer television and radio. Direct-To-Home reception in beam centre is possible with antennae smaller than 70 cm, and with slightly larger antennas, throughout Europe, North Africa and as far East as Moscow and Dubai.
With a constellation of three high-power satellites, the HOT BIRD™ family at 13 degrees East forms one of the largest broadcasting systems in Europe, delivering 1100 television channels to more than 120 million TV homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
13° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East |
DTH TV, |
|
13° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East |
Broadcast, |
|
13° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, Northern Africa, and Middle East |
Broadcast, |
SESAT SATELLITES
The SESAT satellites (Siberia - Europe Satellites) provide a wide range of telecommunications services over a very large geographical coverage area that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Eastern Russia, including a large part of Siberia. The satellites also provide broadcasting services to Africa by means of steerable spotbeams.
Satellite |
Location |
Frequency |
Coverage Area |
Services |
16° East |
Ku-Band |
Central and Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East, and the Indian Ocean region |
Broadcast Service |
|
53° East |
Ku-Band |
Europe, Africa, Middle East & central Asia |
Data/Broadband, |
SATELLITES
ATLANTIC BIRD™ 1 (12.5° West)
ATLANTIC BIRD™ 2 (8° West)
ATLANTIC BIRD™ 3 (5° West)
ATLANTIC BIRD™ 7 (7° West)
KA-SAT (9° East)
EUROBIRD™ 1 (28.5° East)
EUROBIRD™ 2 (25.5° East)
EUROBIRD™ 3 (33° East)
EUROBIRD™ 4A (4° East)
EUROBIRD™ 9A (9° East)
EUROBIRD™ 16 (16° East)
HOT BIRD™ 6 (13° East)
HOT BIRD™ 8 (13° East)
HOT BIRD™ 9 (13° East)
SESAT 1 (16° East)
SESAT 2 (53° East)
W2A (10° East)
W3C (16° East)
W3A (7° East)
W4 (36° East)
W5 (70.5° East)
W6 (21.5° East)
W7 (36° East)
W48 (48° East)
