PARIS — Satellite fleet operator Hispasat of Spain has selected Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to build the Ku- and Ka-band Amazonas 5 satellite for broadband and telecommunications services in Latin America in a move that cancels the planned Amazonas 4B satellite that Orbital Sciences Corp. was expected to build.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris bureau chief for SpaceNews.