{"id":60331,"date":"2020-02-18T21:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launches-satellites-for-sky-perfect-jsat-korea-aerospace-research-institute\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T21:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T13:34:37","slug":"arianespace-launches-satellites-for-sky-perfect-jsat-korea-aerospace-research-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launches-satellites-for-sky-perfect-jsat-korea-aerospace-research-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace\u00a0Launches Satellites for Sky Perfect JSAT, Korea Aerospace Research Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> successfully launched a dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) French Guiana on Tuesday. The mission placed JCSAT-17 for the Japanese operator<strong> Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation<\/strong>, and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B for <strong>Korea Aerospace Research Institute<\/strong> (KARI) into Geostationary Orbit (GEO). It was Arianespace\u2019s third mission of the year. JCSAT-17&nbsp; separated 27 minutes after liftoff and followed GEO-KOMPSAT-2B separated four minutes later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>JCSAT-17, built by <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong>, is the 21st SKY Perfect JSAT satellite to be launched by Arianespace. This geostationary communications satellite will deliver flexible, high-bandwidth communications to users in Japan and the surrounding region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GEO-KOMPSAT-2B will be KARI\u2019s second satellite as a manufacturer \u2013 and its third as a client \u2013 to be launched by Arianespace. It is part of a Korean government program to develop and operate two civilian geostationary satellites. This one will monitor Earth\u2019s environment and the ocean. It\u2019s predecessor, GEO-KOMPSAT-2A, which focuses on for meteorological and space weather monitoring, was launched by Arianespace in December 2018. GEO-KOMPSAT-2B carries two main payloads: Geostationary Ocean Color Imager II (GOCI II), provided by <strong>Airbus Defence and Space<\/strong>; and the Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS), provided by <strong>Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace successfully launched a dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) French Guiana on Tuesday. The mission placed JCSAT-17 for the Japanese operator Sky Perfect JSAT Corporation, and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B for Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) into Geostationary Orbit (GEO). It was Arianespace\u2019s third mission of the year. JCSAT-17&nbsp; separated 27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60332,"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-60331","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\/60331"}],"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=60331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}