{"id":81696,"date":"2013-01-15T00:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/latin-americas-first-ka-band-payload-arrives-in-kourou\/"},"modified":"2013-01-15T00:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:52:40","slug":"latin-americas-first-ka-band-payload-arrives-in-kourou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/latin-americas-first-ka-band-payload-arrives-in-kourou\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin America\u2019s First Ka-band Payload Arrives in Kourou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-14-13] <b>Space Systems\/Loral (SSL)<\/b> has successfully shipped the Amazonas 3 multi-mission satellite it designed and built for <b>Hispasat<\/b> to the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where <b>Arianespace<\/b> will launch the spacecraft aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, the satellite manufacturer confirmed Jan. 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L both completed construction on and delivered the satellite ahead of schedule. Amazonas 3 includes the first Ka-band payload for broadband service in Latin America, designed to provide a wide range of telecommunications services, including direct-to-home television (DTH), corporate fixed and mobile telephone networks and broadband to the Americas, Europe and North Africa from the orbital location of 61 degrees West longitude.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The SS\/L 1300-model satellite also has 33 Ku-band and 19 C-band transponders in addition to its 9 Ka-band spot beams.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWith the early delivery of Amazonas 3, SS\/L has helped bring Hispasat closer to its goal of providing the main communications bridge between the European and American continents,\u201d Hispasat CEO Carlos Espin\u00f3s said in a statement. \u201cWhen launched, the satellite will bring great opportunity for innovation and growth in Latin America with its broadband payload.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-14-13] Space Systems\/Loral (SSL) has successfully shipped the Amazonas 3 multi-mission satellite it designed and built for Hispasat to the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where Arianespace will launch the spacecraft aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, the satellite manufacturer confirmed Jan. 14. &nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L both completed construction on and delivered the satellite ahead of [&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-81696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81696"}],"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=81696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}