{"id":64254,"date":"2018-08-27T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telesats-telstar-19-vantage-satellite-is-now-operational\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T14:15:10","slug":"telesats-telstar-19-vantage-satellite-is-now-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telesats-telstar-19-vantage-satellite-is-now-operational\/","title":{"rendered":"Telesat\u2019s Telstar 19 Vantage Satellite is Now Operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Telesat<\/strong>\u2018s Telstar 19 Vantage high throughput satellite (HTS) entered commercial service and is fully operational at 63 degrees West. Telstar 19 Vantage was launched by a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 22, and will serve growing consumer, enterprise, and mobility markets across the Americas and Atlantic. The satellite is being operated by <strong>Telesat Brasil<\/strong>, a Brazilian satellite company wholly-owned by Telesat.<\/p>\n<p>Telstar 19 Vantage was built by <strong>SSL,<\/strong> a <strong>Maxar Technologie<\/strong>s company, and is the latest in a new generation of Telesat satellites with capacity optimized to serve the types of bandwidth intensive applications increasingly in demand by users worldwide. It operates from Telesat\u2019s prime orbital location of 63 degrees West, the same as Telesat\u2019s Telstar 14R satellite. With its distinct zones of coverage across the Americas and Atlantic, Telstar 19 VANTAGE combines regional beams and high throughput spotbeams in Ku-band with additional HTS spotbeams in Ka-band.<\/p>\n<p>As previously announced, Telesat customer <strong>Hughes Network Systems<\/strong>&nbsp;signed a 15-year agreement for Telstar 19 Vantage Ka-band capacity&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;which Hughes refers to as Hughes 63 West. Hughes will utilize this capacity to expand its broadband satellite services for consumers and businesses in South America. Telesat also has long-term contracts for the entire Ka-band capacity of Telstar 19 Vantage over Northern Canada, including providing <strong>Bell Canada<\/strong> subsidiary <strong>Northwestel<\/strong> with the HTS spotbeam capacity required to enhance broadband connectivity for all 25 communities in Nunavut, Canada\u2019s northernmost territory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telesat\u2018s Telstar 19 Vantage high throughput satellite (HTS) entered commercial service and is fully operational at 63 degrees West. Telstar 19 Vantage was launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 22, and will serve growing consumer, enterprise, and mobility markets across the Americas and Atlantic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64255,"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-64254","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\/64254"}],"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=64254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}