{"id":82320,"date":"2012-10-11T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/atk-contracts-emcore-for-amos-6-solar-panels\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:57:28","slug":"atk-contracts-emcore-for-amos-6-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/atk-contracts-emcore-for-amos-6-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"ATK Contracts Emcore for Amos-6 Solar Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-11-12] <strong>ATK <\/strong>has awarded components and subsystems provider <strong>Emcore <\/strong>with a contract to manufacture solar panels for the Amos-6 commercial telecommunications satellite, the companies announced Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Amos-6 spacecraft will be powered by solar panels with Emcore\u2019s ZTJ triple-junction solar cells. Amos-6 is being built by <strong>Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI<\/strong>) and operated by <strong>Spacecom<\/strong>. The satellite is scheduled to launch in early 2015 before co-locating to the 4 degrees West orbital position with Amos-2 and Amos-3. Amos-6 aims to provide Pan-European and Middle East coverage with steerable Ku-band and African and European broadband service with a Ka-band beam.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\u201cWe are excited about this opportunity to adapt our space-proven modular PUMA array, from GPS 2F and Orbital\u2019s Star2 GEO line, to provide power to IAI\u2019s AMOS-6 satellite for Spacecom,\u201d ATK Vice President and General Manager Dave Messner said in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to delivering over 10kW of end-of-life power using Emcore\u2019s solar cell technology to enable another successful satellite mission.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-11-12] ATK has awarded components and subsystems provider Emcore with a contract to manufacture solar panels for the Amos-6 commercial telecommunications satellite, the companies announced Oct. 10. The Amos-6 spacecraft will be powered by solar panels with Emcore\u2019s ZTJ triple-junction solar cells. Amos-6 is being built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and operated [&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-82320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82320"}],"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=82320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}