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3.3. SATELLITE

OPERATIONS

A s operator and provider of sa- 3. Orbital control via the determi-
© HISDESAT tellite services, Hisdesat counts nation of the position of each
among its principal activities the re- satellite, and the calculation and
al-time operation and management execution of orbital manoeuvres
of its satellites and platforms. to maintain adequate service.
These activities include the following 4. The operation and management
services: of the equipment making up the
control centres and used for the
1. Operative control of both the pla- above-mentioned tasks, both in
tforms and the payloads, via the the principal and the back-up sa-
execution of operational proce-
tellite control centres.
dures and tele-commands, both
routine and during contingency Real-time satellite operations began
situations. at Hisdesat more than 12 years ago.
The communications system consis-
2. The monitoring and analysis of
ting of SpainSAT and XTAR-EUR geos-
the health status of each system tationary satellites has remained fully
by means of the reception and operational in orbit ever since.
management of the telemetry
and alarms. In particular, the SpainSAT satellite
completed more than 11 years of opera-
tion in 2017, providing services in orbit
with all its subsystems operating nomi-
nally and with all redundant units avai-
lable.

For this, it was necessary to carry out
more than 220 commanded opera-
tional procedures last year, including

The SpainSAT © HISDESAT
satellite has

completed more
than 11 years of

operation in orbit

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