{"id":81079,"date":"2013-05-08T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/north-africa-operators-start-using-azerspace-africasat-1\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:05:06","slug":"north-africa-operators-start-using-azerspace-africasat-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/north-africa-operators-start-using-azerspace-africasat-1\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa Operators Start Using Azerspace\/Africasat-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Azercosmos, Satellite Launch, Broadcasting, Broadband<br \/>\nPublication: Trend.az<br \/>\nPublication Date: 05\/06\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"156\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Manufacturing5.jpg\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Manufacturing of the Azerspace\/Africasat-1.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Azercosmos\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>North Africa\u2019s telecommunication operators have started to use Azerbaijan\u2019s first telecommunication satellite Azerspace\/Africasat-1, launched on Feb. 8. According to Azerbaijan\u2019s government, on May 1 the country\u2019s satellite operator Azercosmos started implementing 40 percent of the satellite\u2019s resources, which covers Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East and Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Azerspace\/Africasat-1 operates from a geostationary orbit at 46 degrees east longitude, which is leased from Malaysia\u2019s <strong>Measat Satellite Systems<\/strong>. It is expected to have a service life of up to 16 years.  <\/p>\n<p>The satellite\u2019s payload, built on the STAR-2 platform, has 36 transponders: 24 C-band transponders and a 12 Ku-band range. The frequency band of each transponder is 36 MHz.   The satellite is designed to provide digital broadcasting, Internet access, data transmission and support the creation of VSAT multiservice networks and governmental communications across the region.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" align=\"absMiddle\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/FullStoryArrow.png\">&nbsp;Full story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Azercosmos, Satellite Launch, Broadcasting, Broadband Publication: Trend.az Publication Date: 05\/06\/2013 Manufacturing of the Azerspace\/Africasat-1. Image credit: Azercosmos North Africa\u2019s telecommunication operators have started to use Azerbaijan\u2019s first telecommunication satellite Azerspace\/Africasat-1, launched on Feb. 8. According to Azerbaijan\u2019s government, on May 1 the country\u2019s satellite operator Azercosmos started implementing 40 percent of the satellite\u2019s resources, [&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-81079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81079"}],"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=81079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}