{"id":58442,"date":"2020-12-14T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-satellite-for-siriusxm\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:38:17","slug":"spacex-launches-satellite-for-siriusxm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-satellite-for-siriusxm\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Satellite for SiriusXM"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 rocket launched <strong>SiriusXM<\/strong>\u2018s latest satellite over the weekend. On Sunday, Dec. 13, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30 ET carrying SXM-7. The payload was deployed about 31 minutes after liftoff. This was SpaceX\u2019s 25th launch of 2020. The first stage booster was recovered, marking the booster\u2019s seventh flight and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>SiriusXM confirmed after the launch that SXM-7 deployed its solar arrays and began receiving and sending signals. SXM-7 will now begin firing its thrusters to reach Geostationary Orbit (GEO). SXM-7 will join the radio broadcaster\u2019s fleet of five satellites and is expected to replace the SXM-3 satellite. This satellite will allow SiriusXM to expand services over Canada and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>SXM-7 is built by <strong>Maxar<\/strong> <strong>Technologies<\/strong> on the 1300-class platform. When SiriusXM placed the order in 2016, it was with <strong>SSL<\/strong>, which at the time was an <strong>MDA<\/strong> company. SSL has since been integrated into Maxar\u2019s space systems unit. Maxar is also manufacturing SXM-8 and it is expected to launch in 2021. Both satellites will operate in the S-band spectrum. SXM-7 and SXM-8 will generate more than 20-kW of power and have a large unfurlable antenna reflector that enables broadcast to radios without the need for large dish-type antennas on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>SSL previously built a total of seven satellites for SiriusXM, including its first-generation Sirius satellites that were launched in 2000, and its second-generation Sirius satellites that were launched in 2009 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched SiriusXM\u2018s latest satellite over the weekend. On Sunday, Dec. 13, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:30 ET carrying SXM-7. The payload was deployed about 31 minutes after liftoff. This was SpaceX\u2019s 25th launch of 2020. The first stage booster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58444,"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-58442","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\/58442"}],"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=58442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}