{"id":5326,"date":"2012-05-18T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/apstar-7-satellite-goes-into-operation\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T06:39:35","slug":"apstar-7-satellite-goes-into-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/apstar-7-satellite-goes-into-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"APSTAR-7 Satellite Goes into Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 15 (China Space News) \u2014 Commercial operations of APSTAR-7 started May 15, a month and a half after the satellite was thrust into space, according to a statement released by Thales Alenia Space and APT Satellite Company Limited.<\/p>\n<p>It was carried into space aboard a Long March-3B which lifted off March 31, and on that same day APSTAR-7 entered its preset orbit. The satellite was then positioned into a geostationary orbit 12 days later. Its equipment has passed all tests and has been functioning in accordance with the design. After the in-orbit tests, it was placed at 76.5\u00b0 East Longitude orbital position.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Thales Alenia Space for Hong Kong-based APT Satellite Company Limited, a subsidiary of China Aerospace and Science Technology Corporation, APSTAR 7 is based on Thales Alenia Space\u2019s Spacebus 4000 platform and equipped with 28 C-band and 28 Ku-band active transponders. <\/p>\n<p>It will replace APSTAR-2R and provide broadcasting and communications services to Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Europe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 15 (China Space News) \u2014 Commercial operations of APSTAR-7 started May 15, a month and a half after the satellite was thrust into space, according to a statement released by Thales Alenia Space and APT Satellite Company Limited. It was carried into space aboard a Long March-3B which lifted off March 31, and [&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-5326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326"}],"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=5326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}