{"id":68164,"date":"2017-05-30T18:06:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-21-satellite-to-launch-on-proton-rocket-in-june\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T18:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:06:41","slug":"echostar-21-satellite-to-launch-on-proton-rocket-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-21-satellite-to-launch-on-proton-rocket-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Echostar 21 Satellite To Launch On Proton Rocket in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>International Launch Services <\/strong>(ILS) confirmed that the Proton-M Integrated Launch Vehicle (ILV) will orbit the EchoStar 21 satellite at 6:45 a.m. Moscow time on June 8 (11:45 p.m. EDT, June 7). Processing of Proton-M ILV and EchoStar 21 is currently underway at Baikonur Spaceport.<\/p>\n<p>The Breeze M upper stage will deliver the spacecraft to the intended orbit.&nbsp;ILS has integrated the spacecraft, adapter system, upper stage and the payload as planned, with Breeze M fueling scheduled for June 4.<\/p>\n<p>EchoStar 21 is a Geostationary Orbit (GEO) communications satellite manufactured by <strong>SSL<\/strong> for satellite operator <strong>EchoStar<\/strong>. Echostar has stated that the satellite, the sixth in its constellation launched by a Proton, will provide mobile satellite communications for Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khrunichev Space Center<\/strong>, part of the <strong>Roscosmos State Corporation<\/strong>, designs and manufactures the Proton system, Breeze M upper stage and the Angara family of vehicles.&nbsp;ILS, however, has exclusive rights to market and operate Proton vehicles for commercial customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Launch Services (ILS) confirmed that the Proton-M Integrated Launch Vehicle (ILV) will orbit the EchoStar 21 satellite at 6:45 a.m. Moscow time on June 8 (11:45 p.m. EDT, June 7). Processing of Proton-M ILV and EchoStar 21 is currently underway at Baikonur Spaceport. The Breeze M upper stage will deliver the spacecraft to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68165,"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-68164","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\/68164"}],"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=68164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}