{"id":79813,"date":"2013-10-08T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-8-arrives-at-cape-canaveral-for-spacex-falcon-9-launch\/"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T12:47:09","slug":"ses-8-arrives-at-cape-canaveral-for-spacex-falcon-9-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-8-arrives-at-cape-canaveral-for-spacex-falcon-9-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"SES 8 Arrives at Cape Canaveral for SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-08-13] <b>SES\u2019 <\/b>SES 8 satellite has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The satellite will now be processed for a November launch on board a <b>SpaceX<\/b> Falcon 9 booster. The satellite, manufactured by <b>Orbital Sciences Corporation<\/b>, features up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalent).<\/p>\n<p>The SES 8 will be co-located with the NSS 6 satellite at 95 degrees east to provide growth capacity over the Asia-Pacific region. SES 8 will be the 55th SES satellite to serve Asia-Pacific from this location. The spacecraft\u2019s high performance beams will support the rapidly growing markets in South Asia and Indo-China, as well as provide expansion capacity for DTH, VSAT and government applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSES looks forward to the maiden launch of an SES satellite on board the Falcon 9 rocket operated by SpaceX. When co-located with NSS 6 at 95 degrees east, SES 8 will not only provide incremental high performance capacity for multiple applications, it will also create greater reliability and additional security for customers. As such, the SES 8 satellite is an integral part of SES\u2019 growing presence in Asia-Pacific,\u201d said Martin Halliwell, CTO of SES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-08-13] SES\u2019 SES 8 satellite has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The satellite will now be processed for a November launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. The satellite, manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation, features up to 33 Ku-band transponders (36 MHz equivalent). The SES 8 will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79816,"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-79813","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\/79813"}],"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=79813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}