Amazonas 3

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{{Infobox spaceflight

| name = Amazonas 3

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| mission_type = Communications

| operator = Hispasat

| COSPAR_ID = 2013-006A

| SATCAT = 39078

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| mission_duration = 15 years (planned)
{{time interval|7 February 2013|show=ymd|sep=,}} (elapsed)

| spacecraft =

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| spacecraft_bus = LS-1300

| manufacturer = Space Systems/Loral

| launch_mass = {{cvt|6265|kg}}

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| power = 14 kW

| launch_date = 7 February 2013, 21:36 UTC

| launch_rocket = Ariane 5 ECA (VA212)

| launch_site = Centre Spatial Guyanais, ELA-3

| launch_contractor = Arianespace

| entered_service = April 2013

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| orbit_reference = Geocentric orbit{{cite web|url=https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=39078|title=AMAZONAS 3|publisher=N2YO.com|access-date=11 April 2021}}

| orbit_regime = Geostationary orbit

| orbit_longitude = 61° West

| apsis = gee

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| programme = Hispasat constellation

| previous_mission = Hispasat 1E

| next_mission = Amazonas 4A

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Amazonas 3 is a communications satellite based on the SSL 1300 satellite bus and owned by the Hispasat Group of Madrid, Spain.{{cite web |url=http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.674|title=Jonathan's Space Report No. 674|author=Jonathan McDowell|author-link=Jonathan McDowell|date=2013-02-10|access-date=2013-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191724/http://planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.674|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}} It was launched by an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle on 7 February 2013, with a launch mass of 6265 kg. It will provide C-band and Ku-band service in Brazil for a joint venture of Hispasat and the Brazilian telecommunications carrier Oi.