{"id":59347,"date":"2020-07-21T21:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-confirms-bsat-4b-galaxy-30-mev-2-launch-date\/"},"modified":"2020-07-21T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T13:27:22","slug":"arianespace-confirms-bsat-4b-galaxy-30-mev-2-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-confirms-bsat-4b-galaxy-30-mev-2-launch-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Confirms BSAT-4b, Galaxy 30, MEV-2 Launch Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> has confirmed that it will launch its next three satellites on an expanded Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou at approximately 5:29 p.m. Tuesday, July 28.<\/p>\n<p>This mission will take three critical spacecraft into orbit. The satellites to be launched are: Japan\u2019s <strong>BSAT<\/strong>-4b, built by <strong>Maxar<\/strong>; <strong>Intelsat<\/strong>\u2018s Galaxy 30 UHD video satellite; and <strong>Northrop Grumman<\/strong>\u2018s (NGC) second in-orbit servicing spacecraft, the MEV-2 (Mission Extension Vehicle). NGC also built the Galaxy 30 satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Once launched, BSAT-4b will join its counterpart, BSAT-4a in broadcasting Ultra-HD, 4K, and 8K to homes across across Japan. Arianespace launched BSAT-4a in 2017. Intelsat\u2019s Galaxy 30 will provide UHD video distribution\/broadcast and broadband satellite services to North America. MEV-2 will dock with satellites in orbit to provide life extension services, starting with Intelsat\u2019s 10-02 satellite. Originally launched in 2004, Intelsat 10-02 will gain an additional five years of service if the MEV-2 functions as planned.<\/p>\n<p>To accommodate these three spacecraft, Arianespace increased the payload capacity for its heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket by 85 kg and introduced a new vehicle equipment bay (VEB), bringing total payload capacity into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) to 10,200 kg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has confirmed that it will launch its next three satellites on an expanded Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou at approximately 5:29 p.m. Tuesday, July 28. This mission will take three critical spacecraft into orbit. The satellites to be launched are: Japan\u2019s BSAT-4b, built by Maxar; Intelsat\u2018s Galaxy 30 UHD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59348,"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-59347","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\/59347"}],"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=59347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}