The satellite is scheduled for an early 2013 launch from Arianespace‘s French Guyana Kourou space base aboard an Ariane ECA rocket. 

Amazonas 3 aims to cover the entire American continent, Europe and North America at the 61 degrees West position with 52 transmitters in the Ku-, Ka- and C-bands. The satellite will be the first Ka-band satellite to operate in the LATAM region.