{"id":69205,"date":"2016-12-12T18:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsat-switches-ean-launch-from-spacex-to-arianespace\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:18:24","slug":"inmarsat-switches-ean-launch-from-spacex-to-arianespace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsat-switches-ean-launch-from-spacex-to-arianespace\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat Switches EAN Launch from SpaceX to Arianespace"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-12-2016] <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong> has signed a contract with <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> to launch its S-band satellite for the European Aviation Network (EAN) on an Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle. EAN is an integrated satellite and air-to-ground network, developed by Inmarsat and <strong>Deutsche Telekom<\/strong>, which will deliver a very high capacity broadband Wi-Fi experience for passengers flying throughout Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The EAN payload is part of a condosat constructed by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>, which incorporates a second payload for <strong>Hellas-Sat<\/strong>. The condosat is scheduled for launch from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana in mid-2017. The condosat was originally scheduled for launch with <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>, but following the delay in its launch schedule, Inmarsat and Hellas-Sat took the decision to move the condosat to an Arianespace launch.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat will launch Inmarsat-5 F4, a Global Xpress (GX) satellite, with SpaceX.&nbsp;This launch is planned for the first quarter of fiscal year 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-12-2016] Inmarsat has signed a contract with Arianespace to launch its S-band satellite for the European Aviation Network (EAN) on an Ariane 5 heavy lift launch vehicle. EAN is an integrated satellite and air-to-ground network, developed by Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom, which will deliver a very high capacity broadband Wi-Fi experience for passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69207,"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-69205","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\/69205"}],"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=69205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}