{"id":71973,"date":"2016-02-10T01:42:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-65-west-a-prepped-for-arianespace-launch\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T01:42:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:42:43","slug":"eutelsat-65-west-a-prepped-for-arianespace-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-65-west-a-prepped-for-arianespace-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat 65 West A Prepped for Arianespace Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 02-09-2016] <b>Eutelsat<\/b>\u2019s next satellite, Eutelsat 65 West A, landed in Kourou, French Guiana on Feb. 6 for an upcoming <strong>Arianespace<\/strong> Ariane 5 launch March 9. The 6.5-ton <b>Space Systems Loral <\/b>(SSL)-built satellite will be located at 65 degrees west, a premier position for the Brazilian TV market, ahead of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat 65 West A has 10 C-band and 24 Ku-band transponders for video and data services, and 24 Ka-band spot beams for broadband connectivity in key regions. The spacecraft\u2019s C-band coverage is designed to enable cross-continental video contribution and distribution. <b>Hughes do Brasil<\/b> booked the entire Ka-band high throughput payload for broadband services. Based on the SSL-1300 platform, the satellite is designed to provide approximately 16-kW of power at end of life.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat 65 West A is one of three satellites from Eutelsat launching between this year and last year to bolster its coverage of the Americas. Eutelsat 115 West B launched last year, and Eutelsat 117 West B is scheduled to launch later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 02-09-2016] Eutelsat\u2019s next satellite, Eutelsat 65 West A, landed in Kourou, French Guiana on Feb. 6 for an upcoming Arianespace Ariane 5 launch March 9. The 6.5-ton Space Systems Loral (SSL)-built satellite will be located at 65 degrees west, a premier position for the Brazilian TV market, ahead of the 2016 Rio de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71978,"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-71973","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\/71973"}],"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=71973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}