{"id":65209,"date":"2018-05-14T17:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-most-advanced-falcon-9-lifts-first-geo-satellite-for-bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T09:02:43","slug":"spacexs-most-advanced-falcon-9-lifts-first-geo-satellite-for-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-most-advanced-falcon-9-lifts-first-geo-satellite-for-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Most Advanced Falcon 9 Lifts First GEO Satellite for Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong> successfully launched the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on Friday from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, the Falcon 9\u2019s first stage successfully landed on \u201cOf Course I Still Love You,\u201d SpaceX\u2019s droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission is the first to use Falcon 9 Block 5, the final substantial upgrade to SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which delivered the satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit. Approximately 33 minutes after lift-off, the spacecraft was deployed. Falcon 9 Block 5 is designed to be capable of 10 or more flights with very limited refurbishment as SpaceX continues to strive for rapid reusability and extremely high reliability.<\/p>\n<p>Bangabandhu Satellite-1 is Bangladesh\u2019s first geostationary communications satellite. Development of the satellite program, known as the \u201cBangabandhu Satellite Launching Project,\u201d was managed by the <strong>Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission<\/strong> (BTRC) with technical support from <strong>Space Partnership International <\/strong>(SPI). The satellite, which is comprised of 26 Ku-band and 14 C-band transponders, was manufactured by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> on the Spacebus 4000B2 platform and will be operated by the <strong>Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited<\/strong> (BCSCL).<\/p>\n<p>Located at 119.1 degrees east, Bangabandhu Satellite-1 has a primary service area encompassing Bangladesh to provide Direct-to-Home (DTH) services, video distribution and Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) communications. Its Ku-band coverage includes India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia while it will also provide C-band capacity for the entire region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX successfully launched the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 on Friday from the historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, the Falcon 9\u2019s first stage successfully landed on \u201cOf Course I Still Love You,\u201d SpaceX\u2019s droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. The Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission is the first to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65210,"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-65209","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\/65209"}],"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=65209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}