{"id":79291,"date":"2013-11-21T00:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/alphasat-moved-to-operational-orbital-position-ready-for-service\/"},"modified":"2013-11-21T00:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:08:21","slug":"alphasat-moved-to-operational-orbital-position-ready-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/alphasat-moved-to-operational-orbital-position-ready-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphasat Moved to Operational Orbital Position, Ready for Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-20-13] Alphasat, designed and built by <b>Astrium<\/b>, has reached its operational in-orbit position and has successfully completed all in-orbit tests.<\/p>\n<p>Built for <b>Inmarsat<\/b>, Astrium developed the technology with investment support from the <b>Technology Strategy Board <\/b>and the <b>United Kingdom Space Agency<\/b>. The satellite carries a new generation of advanced geomobile communications payload in L-band to augment Inmarsat\u2019s existing broadband network service across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The spacecraft also delivers additional L-band space segment redundancy and consolidates safety of life services for the aeronautical and maritime sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Alphasat carries four technology demonstration payloads for ESA, including a laser communications terminal developed under a German space agency DLR contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-20-13] Alphasat, designed and built by Astrium, has reached its operational in-orbit position and has successfully completed all in-orbit tests. Built for Inmarsat, Astrium developed the technology with investment support from the Technology Strategy Board and the United Kingdom Space Agency. The satellite carries a new generation of advanced geomobile communications payload in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79292,"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-79291","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\/79291"}],"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=79291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}