{"id":81855,"date":"2012-12-18T01:42:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/skynet-5d-joins-with-ariane5-to-prepare-for-arianespaces-final-2012-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T01:42:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:42:34","slug":"skynet-5d-joins-with-ariane5-to-prepare-for-arianespaces-final-2012-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/skynet-5d-joins-with-ariane5-to-prepare-for-arianespaces-final-2012-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Skynet 5D Joins with Ariane5 to Prepare for Arianespace\u2019s Final 2012 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=\"169\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/skynet5d.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Skynet 5D satellite.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: Astrium\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[12-17-12] The <strong>Skynet <\/strong>5D satellite has joined with <strong>Mexsat <\/strong>Bicentenario on Ariane 5 in preparation for the Dec. 19 <strong>Arianespace <\/strong>seventh and final 2012 heavy-lift flight from the French Guiana Spaceport, Arianespace announced Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\tSkynet 5D was lowered into place over Mexsat Bicentenario on Tuesday encapsulated in an ogive-shaped payload fairing. Skynet 5D is the fourth <strong>Astrium<\/strong>-built satellite in the Skynet 5 series and is riding as the upper passenger in Ariane 5\u2019s payload &#8220;stack,&#8221; scheduled to be deployed first in the launch sequence.<br \/>\n\tThe Skynet 5D relay platform aims to reinforce and extend the operational services provided by the current three Skynet 5 satellites in orbit and will be positioned over the Middle East at 50 degrees East.<br \/>\n\tSkynet 5D is equipped with larger fuel tanks, designed to allow it to be repositioned more frequently to meet operational needs. The satellite aims to extend the total commercially-owned X-band to over 2 GHz of high powered beams across the world. Astrium Services also signed a multi-million dollar contract with <strong>Harris CapRock<\/strong> earlier this year to provide additional UHF capacity on Skynet 5D for military and government customers worldwide.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skynet 5D satellite. Image credit: Astrium [12-17-12] The Skynet 5D satellite has joined with Mexsat Bicentenario on Ariane 5 in preparation for the Dec. 19 Arianespace seventh and final 2012 heavy-lift flight from the French Guiana Spaceport, Arianespace announced Dec. 17. Skynet 5D was lowered into place over Mexsat Bicentenario on Tuesday encapsulated in an [&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-81855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855"}],"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=81855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}