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Up and downlink services

Using a variety of antennas from 3.7m to 18m in size, Castor offers up- and downlink services allowing customers to use our strategically located teleport facilities, terrestrial backbone network, fiber based Internet connectivity with the Amsterdam Internet Exchange and support services without the required investments and costs to set-up and maintain such an infrastructure.

Due to our geographical position, we are in the best position to provide services on satellites serving Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, North and Latin America.

Castor guarantees 99.95% availability for overall performance of each individual RF uplink from its Teleport. This is achieved because all components in the antennas supporting Customer services are N+1 redundant with automatic switch-over. Castor offers rack space and remote hands support in its datacenters to host and support customer owned platforms, servers and/or modems.

Castor provides up and downlink services on the following satellites:

Ku-band:

  • Eutelsat - Sesat1 at 16°E, 3.7m
  • Eutelsat - W2A at 10°E, 9m
  • Eutelsat - W2M at 16°E, 4.6m
  • Eutelsat - W6 at 21.5°E - in progress
  • Intelsat - IS-14 at 315°E, 2.4m
  • Telesat - Telstar 11N at 37.55°W, 3.7m
  • Telesat - Telstar 12 at 15°W, 4.6m
  • RSCC - Express AM-1 at 40°E, 9m
  • RSCC - Express AM-44 at 11°W, 3.7m
  • SES Astra - Astra 3B at 23.5°E, 9m (KDBS)
  • SES World Skies - NSS-12 at 57°E, 2.4m
  • Free-to-deploy: 6.2m Ku-band antenna (also capable of inclined orbit) - please contact us if you have an interesting opportunity!

C-band:

  • RSCC- Express A4 at 14°W, 9.2m (inclined orbit)
  • RSCC- Express AM-44 at 11°W, 3.8m
  • SES World Skies - NSS-12 at 57°E, 16.4m
  • Intelsat - IS-906 at 64°E, 18m
  • Intelsat - IS-4 at 72°E, 3.8m
  • Free-to-deploy: 9.2m C-band antenna (also capable of inclined orbit) - please contact us if you have an interesting opportunity!

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you require an uplink service on a satellite that is not listed above, as we have unallocated antennas which can be deployed on new satellites.