{"id":72102,"date":"2016-01-26T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-to-launch-amos-6-satellite-in-may\/"},"modified":"2016-01-26T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T10:21:38","slug":"spacex-to-launch-amos-6-satellite-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-to-launch-amos-6-satellite-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Amos 6 Satellite in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 01-26-2015] <b>Spacecom<\/b>, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced that <b>SpaceX<\/b> has scheduled the launch of the Amos 6 satellite for May aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Amos 6, to be collocated with Amos 2 and Amos 3 at the 4 degrees west prime orbital position, will provide services to Western, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Amos 6 features 39 Ku-band segments and 24 Ka-band beams. <strong>Facebook<\/strong> has selected Amos 6\u2019s Ka-band beams to be the satellite backbone of its initiative to bring broadband Internet to Sub Sahara Africa with <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong>. The new satellite will be larger than Amos 2 and Amos 3 combined and will incorporate new technologies such as high throughput Ka-band spot beams for improved broadband Internet access. The Ka-band spot beams will cover Europe and Africa as well as Ku-band technologies for new and existing clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 01-26-2015] Spacecom, operator of the Amos satellite fleet, announced that SpaceX has scheduled the launch of the Amos 6 satellite for May aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Amos 6, to be collocated with Amos 2 and Amos 3 at the 4 degrees west prime orbital position, will provide services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69165,"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-72102","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\/72102"}],"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=72102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}