{"id":76988,"date":"2026-08-13T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T01:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thaicom-10-slips-to-late-2028-launch-deepening-thaicoms-fleet-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T03:04:23","slug":"thaicom-10-slips-to-late-2028-launch-deepening-thaicoms-fleet-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thaicom-10-slips-to-late-2028-launch-deepening-thaicoms-fleet-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Thaicom 10 Slips to Late 2028 Launch, Deepening Thaicom&#8217;s Fleet Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company is scrambling to relocate customers ahead of the Thaicom 4 retirement later this year. Thaicom 10 had been set for launch in 2027 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its original launch date was late 2024, but the schedule has slipped as Airbus works through development issues on its new OneSat series of software-defined satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Thaicom 10 is one of the OneSat-series spacecraft affected by those development issues. The latest slip to late 2028 was driven by launch availability. With Thaicom 4 being retired this year and Thaicom 9 delayed without a stated new service date, the operator faces a widening gap in its fleet with no near-term replacement in orbit. Thaicom serves customers across Southeast Asia. No financial figures were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The situation leaves Thaicom managing a coverage gap in which aging capacity retires before replacements arrive. For customers across Southeast Asia, the delays extend the period without the new spacecraft in service until at least the first half of 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Attention now turns to the retirement of Thaicom 4 later this year, the resolution of the Thaicom 9 production delays, and the late 2028 launch window for Thaicom 10 aboard the Falcon 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company is scrambling to relocate customers ahead of the Thaicom 4 retirement later this year. Thaicom 10 had been set for launch in 2027 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its original launch date was late 2024, but the schedule has slipped as Airbus works through development issues on its new OneSat series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[316,3697],"class_list":["post-76988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-spacex","tag-thaicom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76988"}],"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=76988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77016,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76988\/revisions\/77016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}