{"id":83521,"date":"2012-02-17T20:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ses-4-deploys-solar-arrays-heads-to-geo-orbit\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T20:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:09:56","slug":"ses-4-deploys-solar-arrays-heads-to-geo-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ses-4-deploys-solar-arrays-heads-to-geo-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SES-4 Deploys Solar Arrays, Heads to GEO Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-17-12] The SES-4 satellite successfully performed post-launch maneuvers and deployed its solar arrays yesterday following its launch on Tuesday aboard an <b>International Launch Services (ILS)<\/b> Proton Breeze M rocket, the satellite\u2019s manufacturer <b>Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L)<\/b> confirmed Feb. 16.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L said the satellite is now maneuvering into geosynchronous orbit after firing its main thrusters. SES-4 is a C- and Ku-band satellite designed to provide Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) to the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. SES-4 will replace SES\u2019 NSS-7 spacecraft at the 338 degrees East orbital slot after it completes in-orbit testing.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;In a statement, <b>SES<\/b> CTO Martin Halliwell said that SES-4 would provide new, state-of-the-art satellite capacity across three continents as the most powerful spacecraft in its fleet. \u201cThis is our second SS\/L-built satellite to launch in the last six months, and we continue to work closely with SS\/L on another important addition to our fleet, which is scheduled to launch later this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-17-12] The SES-4 satellite successfully performed post-launch maneuvers and deployed its solar arrays yesterday following its launch on Tuesday aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton Breeze M rocket, the satellite\u2019s manufacturer Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) confirmed Feb. 16. &nbsp; &nbsp;SS\/L said the satellite is now maneuvering into geosynchronous orbit after firing its main thrusters. SES-4 [&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-83521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83521"}],"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=83521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}