{"id":56277,"date":"2021-11-22T19:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airbus-ships-first-inmarsat-6-satellite-to-japan-for-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:13:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T11:13:25","slug":"airbus-ships-first-inmarsat-6-satellite-to-japan-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airbus-ships-first-inmarsat-6-satellite-to-japan-for-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Ships First Inmarsat-6 Satellite to Japan for Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The first <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>-6 satellite built by <strong>Airbus<\/strong> is now on the way to Tanegashima in Japan ready for launch, the manufacturer confirmed Nov. 22.<\/p>\n<p>The first satellite of the Inmarsat-6 series is due to be launched on an H-IIA launch vehicle built by <strong>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)<\/strong> in December. It will also be the fifth Eurostar in orbit that is equipped with electric propulsion for orbit raising.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat-6 has a large 9m aperture L-band antenna and nine multibeam Ka-band antennas. The new generation modular digital processor provides full routing flexibility over up to 8000 channels and dynamic power allocation to more than 200 spot beams in L-band. Ka-band spot beams will be steerable over the full Earth disk, with flexible channel to beam allocation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInmarsat-6 F1 features one of the most sophisticated digitally processed payloads we have ever built and delivers remarkable flexibility, capability and capacity. As a long serving supplier to Inmarsat, having built the Inmarsat-4 and Alphasat satellites, Airbus is proud to continue helping keep Inmarsat at the top of its game with this step change in capability brought by Inmarsat-6,\u201d Fran\u00e7ois Gaullier, Head of Telecom Systems at Airbus said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Inmarsat-6 satellite built by Airbus is now on the way to Tanegashima in Japan ready for launch, the manufacturer confirmed Nov. 22. The first satellite of the Inmarsat-6 series is due to be launched on an H-IIA launch vehicle built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in December. It will also be the fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56278,"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-56277","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\/56277"}],"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=56277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}