{"id":73214,"date":"2015-09-18T17:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-wins-falcon-heavy-deal-for-arabsat-6a\/"},"modified":"2015-09-18T17:34:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:34:54","slug":"spacex-wins-falcon-heavy-deal-for-arabsat-6a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-wins-falcon-heavy-deal-for-arabsat-6a\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Wins Falcon Heavy Deal for Arabsat 6A"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-18-2015] <b>SpaceX<\/b> has received a contract from Saudi Arabia based satellite operator <b>Arabsat<\/b> for the launch of Arabsat 6A aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission is planned for 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Under construction by <b>Lockheed Martin<\/b>, Arabsat 6A will be located at 30.5 degrees east. This satellite, along with Hellas-Sat 4\/SaudiGeoSat 1, will grow the operator\u2019s fleet to 10 in-orbit operational satellites, providing TV, radio and broadband services.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX expects to launch the satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. With these additions, SpaceX currently has more than 60 missions on manifest with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, representing more than $7 billion under contract. Other Falcon Heavy customers include <b>Intelsat<\/b>, <b>Inmarsat<\/b>, <b>ViaSat <\/b>and the <b>U.S. Air Force<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-18-2015] SpaceX has received a contract from Saudi Arabia based satellite operator Arabsat for the launch of Arabsat 6A aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission is planned for 2018. Under construction by Lockheed Martin, Arabsat 6A will be located at 30.5 degrees east. This satellite, along with Hellas-Sat 4\/SaudiGeoSat 1, will grow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63749,"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-73214","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\/73214"}],"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=73214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}