MexSat-1 represents the fourth generation of Mexican apparatuses designed by Boeing. It will be used for purposes of the national security, civil and humanitarian programmes. The mobile communications from the satellite will be used in emergency situations of various origins, in tele medicine, education in villages and in governmental operations. The space apparatus, which term is planned at 15 years, will be taken to the geostationary orbit in the position 113 degrees west longitude.

The Proton-M carrier rocket was designed and manufactured by the Khrunichev Center Corporation.