{"id":83046,"date":"2012-05-31T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-signs-falcon-heavy-launch-deal-with-intelsat\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:27:58","slug":"spacex-signs-falcon-heavy-launch-deal-with-intelsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-signs-falcon-heavy-launch-deal-with-intelsat\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Signs Falcon Heavy Launch Deal with Intelsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-31-12] <b>SpaceX<\/b> has signed a contract with FSS operator <b>Intelsat<\/b> to launch a satellite once the launch company\u2019s new Falcon Heavy rocket is complete, SpaceX confirmed May 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The Falcon Heavy will be responsible for taking Intelsat\u2019s satellite up to a into geosynchronous transfer orbit.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX, which recently launched a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule demonstration for <b>NASA<\/b>, did not disclose the timing of the launch with Intelsat, though SpaceX Spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham said the Falcon Heavy rocket would not be ready for some time.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cTimely access to space is an essential element of our commercial supply chain,\u201d Intelsat CTO Thierry Guillemin said in a statement. \u201cAs a global leader in the satellite sector, our support of successful new entrants to the commercial launch industry reduces risk in our business model. Intelsat has exacting technical standards and requirements for proven flight heritage for our satellite launches. We will work closely with SpaceX as the Falcon Heavy completes rigorous flight tests prior to our future launch requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-31-12] SpaceX has signed a contract with FSS operator Intelsat to launch a satellite once the launch company\u2019s new Falcon Heavy rocket is complete, SpaceX confirmed May 30. &nbsp; &nbsp;The Falcon Heavy will be responsible for taking Intelsat\u2019s satellite up to a into geosynchronous transfer orbit. &nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX, which recently launched a Falcon 9 rocket [&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-83046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83046"}],"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=83046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}