{"id":61676,"date":"2019-09-07T01:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/konnect-satellite-undergoes-vibration-tests\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T01:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T17:23:42","slug":"konnect-satellite-undergoes-vibration-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/konnect-satellite-undergoes-vibration-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Konnect Satellite Undergoes Vibration Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The first Spacebus Neo satellite \u2014 Konnect, a High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) ordered by <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> \u2014 successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> facilities in Cannes, according to the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA).<\/p>\n<p>The test demonstrates the ability of the satellite to withstand the strong shaking that occurs during launch.&nbsp;Now that the environmental tests are over, the satellite will undergo a thorough verification before it is finally prepared for launch.<\/p>\n<p>The project partners \u2014 ESA, Thales Alenia Space, France\u2019s <strong>National Center for Space Studies<\/strong> (CNES), and Eutelsat \u2014 were pleased by the performance achieved. \u201cDespite exposure to the most extreme mechanical loads, the first Spacebus Neo has performed fantastically\u2014as have the teams in Cannes who have performed this critical test campaign in record time,\u201d said Fran\u00e7ois Balme, ESA system manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Spacebus Neo satellite \u2014 Konnect, a High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) ordered by Eutelsat \u2014 successfully completed its mechanical test campaign in Thales Alenia Space facilities in Cannes, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The test demonstrates the ability of the satellite to withstand the strong shaking that occurs during launch.&nbsp;Now that the environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61677,"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-61676","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\/61676"}],"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=61676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}