{"id":83081,"date":"2012-05-21T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-launches-telesats-nimiq-6-satellite\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T20:53:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:53:35","slug":"ils-launches-telesats-nimiq-6-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-launches-telesats-nimiq-6-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS Launches Telesat\u2019s Nimiq 6 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-21-12] <b>International Launch Services (ILS)<\/b> has successfully launched the Nimiq 6 direct broadcast satellite for Canadian FSS operator <b>Telesat<\/b> on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, Telesat confirmed May 18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite will be placed at the 91.1 degrees West orbital slot to provide a broad range of video services across Canada. Nimiq 6 was built by <b>Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L)<\/b> to carry 32 high-powered Ku-band transponders that are fully contracted to Canadian DTH broadcaster <b>Bell TV <\/b>for 15 years.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe state-of-the-art capabilities of Nimiq 6 reflect Telesat\u2019s commitment to bring the most advanced satellite services to our customers,\u201d Telesat President and CEO Dan Goldberg said in a statement. \u201cNimiq 6 will contribute to Telesat\u2019s revenue and EBITDA in 2012 and for years to come.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Nimiq 6 will enter into commercial service after it has successfully completed orbit raising and comprehensive in-orbit testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-21-12] International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully launched the Nimiq 6 direct broadcast satellite for Canadian FSS operator Telesat on a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, Telesat confirmed May 18. &nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite will be placed at the 91.1 degrees West orbital slot to provide a broad range of [&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-83081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83081"}],"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=83081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}