{"id":79663,"date":"2013-10-19T00:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/asiasat-8-on-track-for-launch-in-1h-2014\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T00:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:32:16","slug":"asiasat-8-on-track-for-launch-in-1h-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/asiasat-8-on-track-for-launch-in-1h-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"AsiaSat 8 on Track for Launch in 1H 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-18-13] Following good progress made in the manufacturing and testing, <b>Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat) <\/b>has targeted the Asiasat 8 launch for April 2014.<\/p>\n<p>With the successful completion of all the reference performance testing of the spacecraft\u2019s payload and bus subsystems, AsiaSat 8 commenced Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum (SCTV) testing, which is expected to be completed in November. SCTV testing is a major program milestone that validates a spacecraft\u2019s performance in a simulated space vacuum environment and extreme temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>AsiaSat 8 will be co-located with AsiaSat 3S\/AsiaSat 7 at the orbital location of 105.5 degrees east, a slot where AsiaSat has established networks providing service to the Asia-Pacific region since 1990. <b>SpaceX<\/b>\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket will launch AsiaSat 8 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>AsiaSat 8, a <b>Space Systems\/Loral (SSL)<\/b> 1300 satellite, will have four Ku-band beams and one Ka-band beam. AsiaSat 8\u2019s high-powered Ku-band coverage will be serving China, India, the Middle East and South East Asia. The satellite is equipped with inter-beam switching to meet specific customer requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new satellite will help meet the increasing demand for quality capacity from high growth markets in Asia and the Middle East,\u201d said William Wade, president and CEO of AsiaSat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-18-13] Following good progress made in the manufacturing and testing, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company (AsiaSat) has targeted the Asiasat 8 launch for April 2014. With the successful completion of all the reference performance testing of the spacecraft\u2019s payload and bus subsystems, AsiaSat 8 commenced Spacecraft Thermal Vacuum (SCTV) testing, which is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79667,"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-79663","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\/79663"}],"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=79663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}