{"id":83624,"date":"2012-01-26T20:57:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T12:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecom-amos-5-enters-service\/"},"modified":"2012-01-26T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T12:57:38","slug":"spacecom-amos-5-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecom-amos-5-enters-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom Amos-5 Enters Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-26-12] <b>Spacecom<\/b> has launched commercial service on its Amos-5 satellite after the spacecraft successfully completed in-orbit testing, the Israeli operator announced Jan. 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Amos-5 was built by <b>ISS Reshetnev<\/b> and launched in mid-December. The satellite is equipped with a C- and Ku-band payload to carry African broadcast and data communications services. The satellite\u2019s pan-African C-band covers the entire continent while its three Ku-band beams provide coverage over the Francophone, Central and Southern Africa regions.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cAmos-5\u2019s commercial operations propel Spacecom into a new era, further turning us into a multi-regional satellite operator. Africa is an exciting market with growth in broadcast, telecom, mobile and data markets,\u201d Spacecom President and CEO David Pollack said in a statement. \u201cAmos-5\u2019s comprehensive and quality solution will not only be an important element enabling Africa\u2019s communications growth but also an important factor in Spacecom\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-26-12] Spacecom has launched commercial service on its Amos-5 satellite after the spacecraft successfully completed in-orbit testing, the Israeli operator announced Jan. 25. &nbsp; &nbsp;Amos-5 was built by ISS Reshetnev and launched in mid-December. The satellite is equipped with a C- and Ku-band payload to carry African broadcast and data communications services. The satellite\u2019s pan-African [&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-83624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83624"}],"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=83624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}