{"id":80796,"date":"2013-06-18T20:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sea-launch-and-eutelsat-sign-new-launch-services-agreement\/"},"modified":"2013-06-18T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T12:48:16","slug":"sea-launch-and-eutelsat-sign-new-launch-services-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sea-launch-and-eutelsat-sign-new-launch-services-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Launch and Eutelsat Sign New Launch Services Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Sealaunch.jpeg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Sea Launch\u2019s platform.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Sea Launch\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[Satellite TODAY 06-18-13] <b>Sea Launch <\/b>and <b>Eutelsat<\/b> announced the finalization of an agreement to launch the Eutelsat 3B spacecraft in April 2014, using Sea Launch\u2019s Zenit-3SL launch system to liftoff from the company\u2019s ocean-based Odyssey launch platform.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Currently under construction by <b>Astrium<\/b>, an <b>EADS<\/b> company, Eutelsat 3B is based on the Eurostar<del cite=\"mailto:Veronica%20Magan\" datetime=\"2013-06-18T11:11\">\u2013<\/del>3000 platform. Operating in C-, Ku- and Ka-bands, the satellite has been designed with high levels of operational flexibility to serve video, data, Internet and telecom customers across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and parts of South America. It will operate from Eutelsat\u2019s orbital slot located at 3 degrees east longitude in geostationary orbit and have a separated launch mass of more than six metric tons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eutelsat and Sea Launch have worked together in the past. In 2011, Sea Launch successfully placed the Eutelsat 7 West A in orbit, and in 2012 the Eutelsat 70B. \u201cThis new contract increases the flexibility we need to pursue our in-orbit expansion plan of six new satellites by end 2015 that will diversify our overall resources, increase our operational flexibility and further raise in-orbit security<ins cite=\"mailto:Veronica%20Magan\" datetime=\"2013-06-18T11:14\">,<\/ins>\u201d said Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat CEO.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea Launch\u2019s platform. Image credit: Sea Launch [Satellite TODAY 06-18-13] Sea Launch and Eutelsat announced the finalization of an agreement to launch the Eutelsat 3B spacecraft in April 2014, using Sea Launch\u2019s Zenit-3SL launch system to liftoff from the company\u2019s ocean-based Odyssey launch platform. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Currently under construction by Astrium, an EADS company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-80796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80796"}],"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=80796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}