{"id":81977,"date":"2012-11-28T21:45:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/asiasat-secures-backup-launch-services-with-sea-launch\/"},"modified":"2012-11-28T21:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T13:45:27","slug":"asiasat-secures-backup-launch-services-with-sea-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/asiasat-secures-backup-launch-services-with-sea-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"AsiaSat Secures Backup Launch Services with Sea Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 11-28-12] <strong>Sea Launch <\/strong>and <strong>Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) <\/strong>have entered into an option agreement for backup launch services utilizing Sea Launch\u2019s Zenit 3SL rocket, the companies announced Nov. 28. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\tThe agreement provides AsiaSat with an option it may exercise for the launch of a future AsiaSat satellite on a Zenit 3SL vehicle. Sea Launch will provide AsiaSat with an integrated schedule assurance plan in support of AsiaSat\u2019s satellite deployment plan.<br \/>\n\tIn February 2012, AsiaSat chose <strong>SpaceX <\/strong>as its primary launch partner for the launches of AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 in 2014. The new spacecraft expands AsiaSat\u2019s fleet from four to six satellites to provide more high quality and comprehensive satellite services in the Asia-Pacific region.<br \/>\n\t\u201cAsiaSat is pleased to secure this launch option with Sea Launch to ensure the timely deployment of our satellites,\u201d AsiaSat President and CEO William Wade said in a statement. \u201cSea Launch has demonstrated its flexibility in meeting the needs of our future launch requirements and we look forward to closely working with their teams moving ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 11-28-12] Sea Launch and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) have entered into an option agreement for backup launch services utilizing Sea Launch\u2019s Zenit 3SL rocket, the companies announced Nov. 28. &nbsp;&nbsp; The agreement provides AsiaSat with an option it may exercise for the launch of a future AsiaSat satellite on a Zenit 3SL vehicle. [&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-81977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81977"}],"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=81977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}