{"id":81711,"date":"2013-01-10T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thaicom-moves-ipstar-2-launch-date-forward-to-meet-demand\/"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T09:58:10","slug":"thaicom-moves-ipstar-2-launch-date-forward-to-meet-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thaicom-moves-ipstar-2-launch-date-forward-to-meet-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Thaicom Moves Ipstar 2 Launch Date Forward to Meet Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-10-13] Thai satellite operator <b>Thaicom<\/b> has accelerated its plans to launch the Thaicom 8 satellite, also known as Ipstar 2, to meet demand, the company confirmed Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The 440-transponder, $200 million broadband satellite will now be launched in early 2016 and be positioned at the 119.5 degrees East orbital slot.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Thaicom CEO Suthumpun Suphajee said the accelerated schedule was enacted to accommodate the greater use of Ipstar 1, which reached half of its capacity after the company signed a contract with China Telecom\u2019s satellite unit.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cOur feasibility plan involving satellite categories and investment options for Ipstar 2 will be completed by June, with the planned launch of the new satellite in the next three years,\u201d Suphajee told the <i>Bangkok Post<\/i>.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Thaicom is also preparing to launch its Thaicom 6 satellite by the middle of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-10-13] Thai satellite operator Thaicom has accelerated its plans to launch the Thaicom 8 satellite, also known as Ipstar 2, to meet demand, the company confirmed Jan. 10. &nbsp; &nbsp;The 440-transponder, $200 million broadband satellite will now be launched in early 2016 and be positioned at the 119.5 degrees East orbital slot. &nbsp; &nbsp;Thaicom CEO [&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-81711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81711"}],"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=81711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}