{"id":80475,"date":"2013-08-06T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/inmarsats-alphasat-achieves-significant-milestones\/"},"modified":"2013-08-06T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:06:00","slug":"inmarsats-alphasat-achieves-significant-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/inmarsats-alphasat-achieves-significant-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmarsat\u2019s Alphasat Achieves Significant Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 150px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/In_preparation_node_full_image.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<em>Alphasat, Europe\u2019s largest-ever telecom satellite, during testing at Intespace in Toulouse, France.&nbsp;<\/em><br \/>\nImage credit: ESA\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 08-06-13]<b> Inmarsat<\/b> announced that Alphasat, a technically advanced telecommunications satellite, has successfully reached its temporary post in geostationary orbit. Alphasat was launched on an Ariane 5 ECA launcher from French Guiana on July 25.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the past few days, the satellite has successfully achieved a number of additional milestones. These include the boost of the spacecraft into geostationary orbit and the deployments of the four-panel solar array and its L-band reflector. In an operation lasting more than 24 hours, the reflector was released from the satellite and unfurled slowly to its final diameter of 11 meters.<\/p>\n<p>Alphasat will remain in its current orbit for several weeks while Inmarsat, together with the <b>European Space Agency (ESA)<\/b>, continue in-orbit testing. This will include testing of all AlphaBus platform subsystems and the commissioning of its digital processing L-band payload, in addition to the spacecraft\u2019s four Technology Demonstration (hosted) Payloads (TDP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphasat, Europe\u2019s largest-ever telecom satellite, during testing at Intespace in Toulouse, France.&nbsp; Image credit: ESA [Satellite TODAY 08-06-13] Inmarsat announced that Alphasat, a technically advanced telecommunications satellite, has successfully reached its temporary post in geostationary orbit. Alphasat was launched on an Ariane 5 ECA launcher from French Guiana on July 25. Throughout the past few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80476,"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-80475","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\/80475"}],"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=80475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}