{"id":42077,"date":"2006-05-02T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T10:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sea-launch-wins-intelsat-contract\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T18:43:58","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T10:43:58","slug":"sea-launch-wins-intelsat-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sea-launch-wins-intelsat-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Launch wins Intelsat contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sea Launch have earned the launch contract to carry the Intelsat Americas-9 (IA-9) spacecraft into orbit, following a successful debut with the satellite communication giants last year. <\/p>\n

The Boeing-owned launch service successfully carried out the start of the IA-8 mission in 2005 \u2013 and will carry out the launch of the IA-9 in late 2007.\n<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/font>Live Work In Progress information and documents \u2013 Join L2.<\/p>\n

<\/em><\/font><\/font>The IA-9 \u2013 a high-power, C-band and Ku-band satellite \u2013 is currently under construction at Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) in Palo Alto, California.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u2018We are proud to welcome back Intelsat for another Sea Launch mission,\u2019 said Rob Peckham, interim president and general manager of Sea Launch. \u2018We view this new contract as a testament to Intelsat\u2019s confidence in our launch system and our team. We won\u2019t let them down.\u2019<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

The IA-9 spacecraft will provide communications service to North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Intelsat currently plans to operate the satellite from an orbital location at 97 degrees West longitude. IA-9 will become Intelsat\u2019s newest satellite covering North America.<\/p>\n

<\/font> <\/p>\n

The satellite\u2019s hybrid C- and Ku-band communications payload carries a total of 44 operating transponders, selectable among 62 discrete frequencies, providing a total of 1,944 MHz of downlink capacity. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/font>Coverage areas are provided by fixed C- and Ku-band antennas, in addition to an adjustable Ku-band spot beam that can be positioned anywhere on the earth\u2019s surface visible from the satellite\u2019s orbital position. <\/p>\n

The satellite is designed to operate from any of Intelsat\u2019s orbital locations from 77 degrees West longitude to 129 degrees West longitude.<\/font><\/p>\n

The satellite is scheduled for delivery to Intelsat in 2007 and has a design life of 13 years. IA-9 will become Intelsat\u2019s newest satellite covering North America and the thirty-second spacecraft built by SS\/L for the international satellite services provider. <\/font><\/p>\n

The satellite is based on SS\/L\u2019s space-proven LS-1300 geostationary satellite platform, which has a long and proven record of reliable operation.<\/font><\/p>\n

\"\"Space Shuttle 25th Anniversary T-Shirt. Use discount code \u2018nasaspaceflight\u2019 when ordering from Countdown Creations & receive 5% off!
<\/font><\/em>
Sea Launch, in action for the second time this year, launched their Zenit-3SL launch vehicle, carrying the JCSat-9 satellite uphill for a geostationary orbit on April 12.<\/font><\/p>\n

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n

They will be back in action next month for an unconfirmed June 5 launch of the Galaxy 16 satellite. <\/p>\n

NASASpaceflight will be covering the launch via its live event pages.
<\/font>
\"\"<\/em><\/font>\"\"<\/em>
         LIVE UPDATE PAGES<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/u><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sea Launch have earned the launch contract to carry the Intelsat Americas-9 (IA-9) spacecraft into orbit, following a successful debut with the satellite communication giants last year. The Boeing-owned launch service successfully carried out the start of the IA-8 mission in 2005 \u2013 and will carry out the launch of the IA-9 in late 2007. […]<\/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-42077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077"}],"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=42077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}