Hylas 33.5W

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Hylas 1 is due to launch in 2009. She will be an extremely high powered hybrid Ku / Ka band satellite. Official power figures are

Ku band - 54dBW at beam centre
Ka band - 62dBW at beam centre
 

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Llew

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Some interesting footprints there, especially over the UK.

Seems like it'll be used by the Avanti corporation to serve retail outlets (shops etc), probably not for domestic use.

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Blimey, their factsheet promises 250 HD channels :eek:

_http://www.avanti-communications.com/download/HYLAS_Factsheet.pdf
 

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Dont think shes much good for domestic use - shes only got 2 Ku band tp's! :-rofl2
 
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