{"id":83105,"date":"2012-05-15T21:38:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-17-ka-band-satellite-arrives-in-kourou\/"},"modified":"2012-05-15T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T13:38:41","slug":"echostar-17-ka-band-satellite-arrives-in-kourou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-17-ka-band-satellite-arrives-in-kourou\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar 17 Ka-band Satellite Arrives in Kourou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-15-12] <b>Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L)<\/b> shipped the EchoStar 17 satellite to its launch provider <b>Arianespace<\/b> and confirmed May 14 that the spacecraft arrived safely at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L designed and built the all Ka-band EchoStar 17 based on its 1300 platform for <b>EchoStar<\/b> subsidiary <b>Hughes Network Systems<\/b>, which will use the satellite to provide HughesNet Gen4 high-speed Internet service in North America. The spacecraft\u2019s multi-spot beam architecture aims to expand coverage and focus capacity on areas with the highest traffic demand for enhanced services by consumers and businesses in the region.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cEchoStar 17 will bring HughesNet Gen4 high-speed Internet access to over 1.5 million consumer and small business subscribers, further securing our position as the world\u2019s leading provider of satellite broadband services,\u201d Hughes President Pradman Kaul said in a statement. \u201cSpace Systems\/Loral has been an excellent partner in building this complex spacecraft and we are very excited to see it launch next month.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;EchoStar 17 represents SS\/L\u2019s fourth dedicated broadband satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-15-12] Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) shipped the EchoStar 17 satellite to its launch provider Arianespace and confirmed May 14 that the spacecraft arrived safely at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. &nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L designed and built the all Ka-band EchoStar 17 based on its 1300 [&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-83105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105"}],"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=83105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}