{"id":54701,"date":"2022-09-21T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-arabsats-7a-satellite-on-a-falcon-9\/"},"modified":"2022-09-21T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T12:54:25","slug":"spacex-to-launch-arabsats-7a-satellite-on-a-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-arabsats-7a-satellite-on-a-falcon-9\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Arabsat\u2019s 7A Satellite on a Falcon 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Arabsat<\/b> has tapped <b>SpaceX<\/b> for launch once again, selecting the Falcon 9 rocket to launch its 7A satellite, the companies announced Wednesday. Arabsat 7A is a software-defined satellite that Thales Alenia Space is building based on its Space Inspire platform. Neither Arabsat, Thales, or SpaceX has specified a target launch year for the satellite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will join Arabsat 6A and 5A at its data hotspot at 30.5 degrees East, replacing most of the C- and Ku-band capacity for the aging Arabsat 5A satellite. The company also said the satellite will help expand services into several verticals over the Middle East, Africa, and to parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX previously launched Arabsat-6A on a Falcon Heavy in 2019, and will launch the operator\u2019s BADR-8 satellite on Falcon 9 next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe value our work with SpaceX. The signing of this agreement is an extension of the trusted relationship with SpaceX that has been built over the past few years since the launch of Arabsat 6A,\u201d Arabsat CEO Al-Hamedi Al-Anezi said. \u201cArabsat 7A will be one of Arabsat\u2019s first software-defined payload satellites, offering high throughput Ku-band capacity to help Arabsat expand its services into several verticals to enhance its portfolio of products and solutions over the Middle East, Africa and beyond, to parts of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabsat has tapped SpaceX for launch once again, selecting the Falcon 9 rocket to launch its 7A satellite, the companies announced Wednesday. Arabsat 7A is a software-defined satellite that Thales Alenia Space is building based on its Space Inspire platform. Neither Arabsat, Thales, or SpaceX has specified a target launch year for the satellite.&nbsp; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54702,"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-54701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54701"}],"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=54701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}