{"id":67166,"date":"2017-10-02T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launch-expands-intelsat-constellation-and-dth-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2017-10-02T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:54:12","slug":"arianespace-launch-expands-intelsat-constellation-and-dth-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launch-expands-intelsat-constellation-and-dth-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Launch Expands Intelsat Constellation and DTH in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace <\/strong>successfully completed a mission on Sept. 29 that delivered two satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO): Intelsat 37e for operator <strong>Intelsat <\/strong>and BSAT 4a for Japan\u2019s <strong>Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation <\/strong>(BSAT). An Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle carried the satellites into orbit from the ELA-3 launch zone in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat 37e was deployed first in the flight sequence, separating from the Ariane 5 launch vehicle at 29 minutes after liftoff, followed approximately 18 minutes later by BSAT 4a.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat 37e \u2014 built by <strong>Boeing<\/strong> using a 702MP platform \u2014 is the latest satellite to launch as part of Intelsat\u2019s high-throughput Epic series. It also marks the fourth Epic spacecraft orbited by Arianespace to date, following Ariane 5 missions with Intelsat 29e and Intelsat 33e in January and August 2016, respectively, plus last February\u2019s heavy-lift flight that lofted SKY Brasil 1\/Intelsat 32e.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing an estimated 6,440 kg at liftoff, Intelsat 37e will provide capacity for wireless backhaul, enterprise Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) and mobility networks, carrying out its mission from a 342 degrees east orbital slot. Arianespace\u2019s order book includes three more satellites to be lofted for Intelsat.<\/p>\n<p>BSAT 4a will be used for Direct-To-Home (DTH) television relay in Japan, as well as to expand the availability of advanced television services such as 4K\/8K Ultra-High Definition (Ultra-HD) television. It will operate from a final orbital position of 110 degrees east. Arianespace has launched all BSAT satellites since the company\u2019s creation, according to Arianespace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace successfully completed a mission on Sept. 29 that delivered two satellites to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO): Intelsat 37e for operator Intelsat and BSAT 4a for Japan\u2019s Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (BSAT). An Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle carried the satellites into orbit from the ELA-3 launch zone in French Guiana. Intelsat 37e was deployed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64756,"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-67166","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\/67166"}],"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=67166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}