{"id":70765,"date":"2016-06-11T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/proton-ssto-launch-lofts-intelsat-31-satellite-for-latin-america\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T16:07:52","slug":"proton-ssto-launch-lofts-intelsat-31-satellite-for-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/proton-ssto-launch-lofts-intelsat-31-satellite-for-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Proton SSTO Launch Lofts Intelsat 31 Satellite for Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 06-10-2016] <strong>International Launch Services <\/strong>(ILS) successfully orbited the Intelsat 31 satellite for <strong>Intelsat <\/strong>June 9 aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket. The mission design consisted of a 5-burn Breeze M Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (SSTO) \u2014 a method of increasing heavy-lift performance over Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) mission designs.<\/p>\n<p>The first three stages of the Proton used a standard ascent profile to place the orbital unit (the Breeze M upper stage and the Intelsat 31 satellite) into a sub-orbital trajectory. From this point in the mission, the Breeze M performed planned mission maneuvers to insert the orbital unit first to a circular parking orbit, then to intermediate and transfer orbits, and finally to a Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit where Intelsat 31 separated after a 15-hour, 31-minute mission. SSTO missions allow operators to maximize spacecraft operational lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Space Systems Loral <\/strong>(SSL)-built satellite is a 20-kilowatt class spacecraft with both Ku- and C-band capabilities. The satellite will be collocated with Intelsat 30 at 95 degrees west longitude for services over Latin America. The Ku-band payload, known as DLA-2, is designed to provide redundancy for <strong>DirecTV Latin America<\/strong>\u2019s distribution services in South America and the Caribbean. The C-band portion enhances Intelsat\u2019s existing C-band service infrastructure serving Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 06-10-2016] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully orbited the Intelsat 31 satellite for Intelsat June 9 aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket. The mission design consisted of a 5-burn Breeze M Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (SSTO) \u2014 a method of increasing heavy-lift performance over Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) mission designs. The first three stages of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70768,"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-70765","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\/70765"}],"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=70765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}