{"id":60415,"date":"2026-08-04T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airbus-and-thales-alenia-space-to-build-spainsat-ng-iii\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T09:53:15","slug":"airbus-and-thales-alenia-space-to-build-spainsat-ng-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airbus-and-thales-alenia-space-to-build-spainsat-ng-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus and Thales Alenia Space to Build SpainSat NG-III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[CDATA[<p--><b>Hisdesat<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has contracted <strong>Airbus<\/strong> and <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> to build the SpainSat NG-III secure satellite communications satellite for Spain. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airbus, the prime contractor, announced the award on July 31. As prime contractor, Airbus will design, integrate, and test the satellite at its facilities. Airbus in Spain will develop the X-band payload and Thales Alenia Space in Spain will develop the ultra high frequency (UHF) and military Ka-band payloads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This satellite is a replacement for SpainSat NG-II, which was launched last year and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hit by space debris during its orbit-raising process<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That satellite was declared a total loss. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new satellite is set to be launched in the third quarter of 2030 and will become operational in early 2031. It will function alongside SpainSat NG-1, also launched in 2025 and provide strategic communications for Spain\u2019s Armed Forces, government agencies, and allied nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SpainSat NG-III will have greater agility, expanded bandwidth, and increased jamming and electronic threat protection than the previous satellites. The X-band antennas will be designed to reconfigure coverage up to 1,000 times per second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn today\u2019s complex geopolitical landscape, SpainSat NG-III reinforces Spanish and European strategic autonomy by securing mission-critical communications for Spain, NATO, and our allied forces,\u201d said Alain Faur\u00e9, head of Space Systems at Airbus Defence and Space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post Airbus and Thales Alenia Space to Build SpainSat NG-III appeared first on Via Satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hisdesat has contracted Airbus and Thales Alenia Space to build the SpainSat NG-III secure satellite communications satellite for Spain. Airbus, the prime contractor, announced the award on July 31. As prime contractor, Airbus will design, integrate, and test the satellite at its facilities. Airbus in Spain will develop the X-band payload and Thales Alenia Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}