Mobile satellite services provider Inmarsat is negotiating with fleet operator Arabsat on the placement of an Inmarsat S-band payload aboard Arabsat's Hellas Sat 3 satellite to provide mobile broadband service in Europe, industry officials said. Hellas Sat 3 is one of four spacecraft for which Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat issued requests for bids the week of March 10. Hellas Sat 3 would be located at 39 degrees east and used by Arabsat-owned Hellas Sat of Greece to expand its coverage. Arabsat Chief Executive Khalid A Balkheyour, in an interview in Washington March 13, declined to comment on the negotiations but said the Hellas Sat 3 program would move forward as scheduled, and was not dependent on any diird-party payload. Balkheyour allowed, however, that a hosted payload opportunity for Hellas Sat 3 "would of course be welcome."
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机译：业内官员说，移动卫星服务提供商Inmarsat正在与车队运营商Arabsat进行谈判，以将Inmarsat S波段有效载荷放置在Arabsat的Hellas Sat 3卫星上，以在欧洲提供移动宽带服务。 Hellas Sat 3是3月10日当周向沙特阿拉伯利雅得发出要约的四架航天器之一。HellasSat 3将位于东经39度，由阿拉伯人拥有的希腊Hellas Sat用来扩大覆盖范围。 Arabsat首席执行官Khalid A Balkheyour于3月13日在华盛顿接受采访时拒绝对谈判发表评论，但表示Hellas Sat 3计划将如期推进，并且不依赖于任何第三方的有效载荷。但是，Balkheyour允许为Hellas Sat 3提供托管的有效载荷机会，“当然会受到欢迎”。
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