{"id":68096,"date":"2017-06-10T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-21-begins-post-launch-maneuvers-2\/"},"modified":"2017-06-10T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:31:25","slug":"echostar-21-begins-post-launch-maneuvers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-21-begins-post-launch-maneuvers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar 21 Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Launch Services<\/strong> (ILS) successfully delivered the EchoStar&nbsp;21 satellite into orbit on June 7 atop an ILS Proton for <strong>EchoStar<\/strong>. According to manufacturer <strong>SSL<\/strong>, the satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule&nbsp;and is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing nearly&nbsp;7 metric tons, this is the heaviest satellite launched by ILS Proton to date. EchoStar 21 is an S-band satellite for next generation Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) that will be located at 10.25 degrees east. It features a large unfurlable reflector that will deploy after the satellite is on station. Based on the SSL 1300 platform, the satellite is designed to provide service for 15 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>EchoStar Mobile will utilize a portion of EchoStar XXI\u2019s capacity to provide MSS capacity throughout the European Union (EU). EchoStar Mobile is an EU-wide licensee for an integrated mobile satellite service network with a complementary ground component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Launch Services (ILS) successfully delivered the EchoStar&nbsp;21 satellite into orbit on June 7 atop an ILS Proton for EchoStar. According to manufacturer SSL, the satellite deployed its solar arrays on schedule&nbsp;and is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. Weighing nearly&nbsp;7 metric tons, this is the heaviest satellite launched by ILS Proton to date. EchoStar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56366,"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-68096","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\/68096"}],"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=68096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}