{"id":73242,"date":"2015-09-17T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ssl-picks-arianespace-to-launch-bsat-4a-satellite\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:00:25","slug":"ssl-picks-arianespace-to-launch-bsat-4a-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ssl-picks-arianespace-to-launch-bsat-4a-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Picks Arianespace to launch BSAT 4a Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2015] <b>SSL<\/b> has selected <b>Arianespace<\/b> to launch the BSAT 4a satellite currently under construction for Japan\u2019s <b>Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation <\/b>(B-SAT). The launch agreement is part of a turnkey contract between the satellite manufacturer and B-SAT. Arianespace is scheduled to launch the satellite aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in late 2017 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The European launch provider has orbited all of B-SAT\u2019s satellites to date.<\/p>\n<p>BSAT 4a will use SSL\u2019s 1300 platform, carrying 24 Ku-band transponders, and weighing about 3,500 kg at launch. The satellite will be positioned in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) at 110 degrees east, and has a design life exceeding 15 years. B-SAT is using the new satellite to replace BSAT 3a. It will have the same service footprint, but will enable new 4K and 8K Ultra-HD TV services to all of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-16-2015] SSL has selected Arianespace to launch the BSAT 4a satellite currently under construction for Japan\u2019s Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT). The launch agreement is part of a turnkey contract between the satellite manufacturer and B-SAT. Arianespace is scheduled to launch the satellite aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in late 2017 from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69120,"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-73242","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\/73242"}],"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=73242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}