{"id":82414,"date":"2012-09-25T21:51:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-completes-acquisition-of-ge-23-satellite\/"},"modified":"2012-09-25T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T13:51:46","slug":"eutelsat-completes-acquisition-of-ge-23-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-completes-acquisition-of-ge-23-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Completes Acquisition of GE-23 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[09-25-12] <b>Eutelsat Communications<\/b> has obtained all required regulatory approvals to acquire the GE-23 satellite, associated customer contracts and orbital rights from <b>GE Capital<\/b>, which completes the operator\u2019s transaction, Eutelsat announced Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b> built the GE-23 satellite, which was launched into geostationary orbit at 172 degrees East in December 2005. The satellite offers coverage over the Asia-Pacific region via a payload of 20 Ku-band transponders accessing five interconnecting beams and 18 C-band transponders connected to a trans-Pacific beam.<br \/>\nFollowing the acquisition, the satellite was renamed Eutelsat 172A and integrated with Eutelsat\u2019s fleet.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are delighted to announce finalization of this acquisition that brings three key assets to Eutelsat: a high-quality satellite equipped with a flexible payload of C and Ku-band capacity in great demand over the Asia-Pacific region; orbital rights at 172 degrees East, giving us an exceptional platform to serve dynamic markets in the region as well as headroom for further expansion; and a portfolio of quality customer relationships that we are excited to serve,\u201d Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen said in a statement. \u201cThis satellite adds further ballast to Eutelsat\u2018s organic growth initiatives, notably our Eutelsat 70B satellite which is equipped with a dedicated Asian beam and on track for launch later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[09-25-12] Eutelsat Communications has obtained all required regulatory approvals to acquire the GE-23 satellite, associated customer contracts and orbital rights from GE Capital, which completes the operator\u2019s transaction, Eutelsat announced Sept. 25. &nbsp; &nbsp;Thales Alenia Space built the GE-23 satellite, which was launched into geostationary orbit at 172 degrees East in December 2005. The satellite [&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-82414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82414"}],"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=82414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}