{"id":83376,"date":"2012-03-19T21:56:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-wins-falcon-9-launch-contracts-with-abs-satmex\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T21:56:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T13:56:32","slug":"spacex-wins-falcon-9-launch-contracts-with-abs-satmex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-wins-falcon-9-launch-contracts-with-abs-satmex\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Wins Falcon 9 Launch Contracts with ABS, Satmex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-19-12] <b>SpaceX<\/b> has signed contracts with <b>Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS)<\/b> and <b>Sat\u00e9lites Mexicanos (Satmex)<\/b> for two launches aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX confirmed March 16.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX will launch the two companies\u2019 geosynchronous telecommunications satellites on two separate launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The first launch is scheduled for late 2014 or early 2015, with the second launch following in the fourth quarter of 2015. The agreement marks SpaceX\u2019s first launch contract in Mexico and its second Asian launch contract in the past month.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are very pleased to have SpaceX, the world\u2019s fastest growing space launch company, as our launch partner for Satmex 7,\u201d Satmex CEO Patricio Northland said in a statement. \u201cSatmex 7 will be a cornerstone of the Satmex fleet designed to provide DTH and data services with increased power levels and improved elevation angles from any location within the coverage. These benefits will provide better performance to deliver media content directly to homes as well as broadband services.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cOver the past decade, we have seen launch prices increase dramatically, making access to space out of reach for many programs,\u201d ABS CEO Tom Choi added. \u201cAs one of the fastest growing satellite operators in the world, ABS requires access to space that combines affordability and lift capacity for our future satellite programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-19-12] SpaceX has signed contracts with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Sat\u00e9lites Mexicanos (Satmex) for two launches aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX confirmed March 16. &nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX will launch the two companies\u2019 geosynchronous telecommunications satellites on two separate launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The first launch is scheduled for late 2014 or early 2015, [&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-83376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83376"}],"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=83376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}