{"id":69284,"date":"2016-12-02T23:37:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecom-signs-transponder-service-agreement-for-asiasat-8\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T23:37:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:37:09","slug":"spacecom-signs-transponder-service-agreement-for-asiasat-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecom-signs-transponder-service-agreement-for-asiasat-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom Signs Transponder Service Agreement for AsiaSat 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-02-2016] After the loss of its Amos 6 satellite in a <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon 9 explosion, <strong>Spacecom<\/strong> has entered into a transponder service agreement with <strong>AsiaSat <\/strong>to use its in-orbit satellite AsiaSat 8, which will be relocated to an orbital slot as agreed with Spacecom. Exclusive rights to use all Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat 8 will be granted to Spacecom for a minimum of four years for the provision of commercial satellite communications services. AsiaSat will continue to be responsible for the satellite\u2019s tracking, telemetry and control functions.<\/p>\n<p>The service term is expected to commence from the first quarter of 2017 subject to necessary regulatory approvals and satisfactory testing after the relocation. AsiaSat expects that Spacecom will become one of its top customers in terms of revenue contribution once the service term begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are glad to strengthen our connection with AsiaSat. AsiaSat 8 satellite enables us to continue serving our customers at 4W orbital location following the end of life of Amos 2 and provide them with additional capacity and services,\u201d said David Pollack, CEO and president of Spacecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-02-2016] After the loss of its Amos 6 satellite in a SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion, Spacecom has entered into a transponder service agreement with AsiaSat to use its in-orbit satellite AsiaSat 8, which will be relocated to an orbital slot as agreed with Spacecom. Exclusive rights to use all Ku-band transponders on AsiaSat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69285,"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-69284","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\/69284"}],"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=69284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}