{"id":69899,"date":"2016-09-22T21:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-prepares-for-q4-satellite-launch-makes-ott-investment\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:21:49","slug":"echostar-prepares-for-q4-satellite-launch-makes-ott-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-prepares-for-q4-satellite-launch-makes-ott-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar Prepares for Q4 Satellite Launch, Makes OTT Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-22-2016] <strong>Space Systems Loral <\/strong>(SSL) has certified the EchoStar 21 satellite ready to ship ahead of a fourth quarter 2016 launch. The communications satellite \u2014 to be located at 10.25 degrees east \u2014 was intended for launch in April 2016, but was placed in storage after the delay of its May 2016 Proton launch. SSL has now completed final shipment preparations at its Palo Alto, California facility, where the spacecraft will remain in storage until <strong>EchoStar<\/strong> receives notification of launch vehicle availability.<\/p>\n<p>EchoStar subsidiary <strong>EchoStar Mobile Limited<\/strong> (EML) will use a portion of EchoStar 21\u2019s capacity to provide commercial communications wholesalers with a network for IP-based Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) for voice and narrowband data services in Europe. EML is an EU-wide licensee authorized to provide an integrated MSS network with a complementary ground component. The company has provided notice of the completion of construction and temporary storage of EchoStar 21 to relevant EU and member state regulators.<\/p>\n<p>Recently EchoStar also deepened a contract with <strong>Xavient<\/strong>, which over the past year has added development, support and testing platforms across various consumer level applications catering to the Over-the-Top (OTT) industry. Through Xavient\u2019s OTT Lab, the firm tests the performance and functionality of software in a growing number of platforms and mobile devices that deliver OTT programming to consumers. These devices include <strong>Apple <\/strong>TV, <strong>Microsoft<\/strong>\u2019s Xbox One, and the <strong>Samsung <\/strong>Galaxy Tablet, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-22-2016] Space Systems Loral (SSL) has certified the EchoStar 21 satellite ready to ship ahead of a fourth quarter 2016 launch. The communications satellite \u2014 to be located at 10.25 degrees east \u2014 was intended for launch in April 2016, but was placed in storage after the delay of its May 2016 Proton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69900,"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-69899","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\/69899"}],"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=69899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}