{"id":3878,"date":"2018-08-22T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/in-orbit-communications-satellite-delivered-to-hong-kong-firm\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T13:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T13:48:51","slug":"in-orbit-communications-satellite-delivered-to-hong-kong-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/in-orbit-communications-satellite-delivered-to-hong-kong-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"In-orbit Communications Satellite Delivered to Hong Kong Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >BEIJING, Aug. 13 (<font face=\"Arial\">China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s commercial satellite launch company has completed in-orbit delivery of communications satellite &#8220;APSTAR-6C&#8221; to its Hong Kong customer.<\/p>\n<p >The satellite was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and launched on May 4 this year by the Long March-3B carrier rocket from southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.<\/p>\n<p >It was delivered to Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Co., Ltd, on Tuesday, according to China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC).<\/p>\n<p >With a designed life of 15 years, APSTAR-6C will provide communication and satellite broadcasting services to customers across the Asia-Pacific region, and will have a big potential market for providing services to support the Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n<p >It is also the second communications satellite based on the DFH-4 platform to be procured by APT Satellite, following the APSTAR-9, which has provided services to APT Satellite&#8217;s customers since its launch in 2015.<\/p>\n<p >China has developed 15 communications satellites based on the DFH-4 platform, and the earliest DFH-4 communications satellite has served in orbit for nearly 10 years, said CGWIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Aug. 13 (China Space News) &#8212; China&#8217;s commercial satellite launch company has completed in-orbit delivery of communications satellite &#8220;APSTAR-6C&#8221; to its Hong Kong customer. The satellite was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) and launched on May 4 this year by the Long March-3B carrier rocket from southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}