{"id":55000,"date":"2022-07-25T21:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-i-6-f1-satellite-begins-on-orbit-testing\/"},"modified":"2022-07-25T21:01:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T13:01:33","slug":"inmarsat-i-6-f1-satellite-begins-on-orbit-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-i-6-f1-satellite-begins-on-orbit-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat I-6 F1 Satellite Begins On-Orbit Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inmarsat<\/strong> has confirmed that its I-6 F1 satellite has reached Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and begun on-orbit testing. The satellite, the size of a London double-decker bus, with a solar array \u2018wingspan\u2019 larger than a Boeing 767, was launched by <strong>MHI<\/strong> in Japan in December 2021. The satellite is carrying both L-band and Ka-band payloads, and aims to deliver a further enhancement of Inmarsat\u2019s Elera and Global Xpress networks.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch, it has been moving towards Geostationary Orbit approximately 36,000 km above the Earth via its all-electric propulsion system. It has now arrived at its test location over the Atlantic and has begun a thorough and extensive testing program before moving and entering service over the Eastern Indian Ocean in early 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe I-6 satellites will extend Inmarsat\u2019s global leadership in L-band services through Elera to the 2040s, as well as enhance further our Global Xpress Ka-band network capacity in emerging hotspots. Offering greater bandwidth and coverage, supporting greater speeds and a greater portfolio of innovative connectivity, Inmarsat\u2019s I-6s also substantially increase the effective capacity of the Elera network available to our customers. Having double the beams, 50% more spectrum per beam and double the power of the I-4s, the I-6s\u2019 advanced processors match customer demand as and where it is needed in real-time,\u201d Peter Hadinger, Inmarsat CTO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inmarsat has confirmed that its I-6 F1 satellite has reached Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and begun on-orbit testing. The satellite, the size of a London double-decker bus, with a solar array \u2018wingspan\u2019 larger than a Boeing 767, was launched by MHI in Japan in December 2021. The satellite is carrying both L-band and Ka-band payloads, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52881,"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-55000","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\/55000"}],"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=55000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}