Hot Bird is the common name of a family of 5 satellites operated by Eutelsat, located at 13 degrees East over the Equator (orbital position) and transmitting in free-to-air towards 98 million households in Europe, North Africa &, the Middle East.

They are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. There is no Hot Bird 5 anymore; it was located elsewhere on the orbit, transmitted towards a different location and got eventually renamed into Arabsat 2D. Hot Birds 7a and 8 are currently under construction. Hot Bird 7 was lost in December 2002 during the Ariane 5 launch.

Broadcasters

With channels and languages.

• Discovery Channel.
• Euronews
• Eurosport
• BBC World (english).
• RAI UNO, DUE, TRE, SPORT, SAT (italian).
• RTL 2 and 7.
• TVE (spanish).

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