{"id":60635,"date":"2020-01-17T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-confirms-solar-ray-lost-on-eutelsat-5-west-b\/"},"modified":"2020-01-17T22:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T14:45:51","slug":"eutelsat-confirms-solar-ray-lost-on-eutelsat-5-west-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-confirms-solar-ray-lost-on-eutelsat-5-west-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Confirms Solar Ray Lost on EUTELSAT 5 West B"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After an investigation into a malfunction on one of EUTELSAT 5 West B satellite\u2019s solar rays, <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> confirmed Friday that the satellite\u2019s South solar array has been lost. The attendant power loss means only 45% of the capacity of the satellite can be operated. With the exception of the South solar array, the satellite performance remains nominal.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, which was launched in October 2019 to replace EUTELSAT 5 West A, is now expected to enter commercial service later in January, and is expected to meet the designed life time. Eutelsat will take a number of mitigation actions to assure service continuity for customers, following the end of life in stable orbit of EUTELSAT 5 West A.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the EUTELSAT 5 West B is fully insured against the eventuality of a partial or total loss by a launch-plus-one-year insurance for up to $191 million. The partial non-availability of EUTELSAT 5 West B will reduce Financial Year 2019-20 revenues for the Operating Verticals by $5.5 million to $11.1 million. Mitigation will require a one-off cost, mostly related to the repointing of ground antennae, of between 0 to $11.1 million. Therefore, Eutelsat has mechanically revised its revenue objective for Financial Year 2019-20 to between approximately $1,410 million and $1,460 million for the Operating Verticals.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, on Thursday, EUTELSAT KONNECT was successfully launched into Geostationary Transfer Orbit by <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, at 9:05 pm UTC. EUTELSAT KONNECT, built by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>, is set to assure full or partial coverage for up to 40 countries across Africa and 15 over Europe. It is the first satellite to use Thales Alenia Space\u2019s all-electric Spacebus NEO platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collaboration between Eutelsat, Thales Alenia Space and Arianespace on this ambitious satellite program has resulted in a world-first broadband satellite for the African and European continents that demonstrates the suitability of satellite infrastructure as a means to deliver high quality broadband services, contributing to bridging the digital divide within rural areas,\u201d Eutelsat CEO Rodolphe Belmer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an investigation into a malfunction on one of EUTELSAT 5 West B satellite\u2019s solar rays, Eutelsat confirmed Friday that the satellite\u2019s South solar array has been lost. The attendant power loss means only 45% of the capacity of the satellite can be operated. With the exception of the South solar array, the satellite performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52675,"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-60635","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\/60635"}],"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=60635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}