{"id":72575,"date":"2015-11-20T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/intelsat-relocates-horizons-2-satellite-for-new-dth-platform-in-thailand\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T17:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:07:35","slug":"intelsat-relocates-horizons-2-satellite-for-new-dth-platform-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/intelsat-relocates-horizons-2-satellite-for-new-dth-platform-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelsat Relocates Horizons 2 Satellite for New DTH Platform in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-20-2015] <b>Intelsat<\/b> announced Nov. 19 it has moved the Horizons 2 satellite to a new orbital position at 85 degrees east to launch a new Free-to-Air (FTA) Direct-to-Home (DTH) platform in Thailand. The satellite will support <b>Next Step<\/b>, a content provider turned platform operator,<b> <\/b>with launching its new Freeview HD platform, which is positioned to serve an addressable market of approximately 67 million people.<\/p>\n<p>Next Step has a multiyear agreement to use Ku-band capacity on Horizons 2. Intelsat expects the DTH market in Thailand to grow by more than 2.5 million new subscribers in the next 10 years. The company launched Horizons 2 in 2007 in partnership with <b>Sky Perfect JSAT<\/b> for coverage over the United States, and previously relocated the satellite to cover Russia in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-20-2015] Intelsat announced Nov. 19 it has moved the Horizons 2 satellite to a new orbital position at 85 degrees east to launch a new Free-to-Air (FTA) Direct-to-Home (DTH) platform in Thailand. The satellite will support Next Step, a content provider turned platform operator, with launching its new Freeview HD platform, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68375,"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-72575","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\/72575"}],"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=72575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}