{"id":83411,"date":"2012-03-13T00:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-wins-mexsat-1-launch-contract\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T00:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:29:06","slug":"ils-wins-mexsat-1-launch-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-wins-mexsat-1-launch-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS Wins Mexsat-1 Launch Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-12-12] <b>International Launch Services (ILS) <\/b>has signed a contract to launch the Mexsat-1 satellite for the <b>Mexican government\u2019s Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT)<\/b> on an ILS Proton rocket in 2013 or 2014, the company confirmed January 9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; ILS and <b>Khrunichev<\/b> are implementing a mission integration schedule to support a Proton launch that will place Mexsat-1 into geostationary transfer orbit before sending it to its final orbital location at 113 degrees West. Mexsat-1 will join Mexico\u2019s current satellite fleet to offer mobile satellite services and fixed satellite services to support governmental, civil and humanitarian efforts.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cILS and Khrunichev are poised to support SCT\u2019s schedule requirements and look forward to delivering outstanding value with an ILS Proton launch,\u201d ILS President Frank McKenna said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite, currently under construction by Boeing based on its 702 HP platform, is being equipped with a 22-meter L-band reflector for mobile terminal links, complemented by a 2-meter Ku-band antenna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-12-12] International Launch Services (ILS) has signed a contract to launch the Mexsat-1 satellite for the Mexican government\u2019s Ministry of Communications and Transportation (SCT) on an ILS Proton rocket in 2013 or 2014, the company confirmed January 9. &nbsp; &nbsp; ILS and Khrunichev are implementing a mission integration schedule to support a Proton launch that [&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-83411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83411"}],"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=83411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}