{"id":83843,"date":"2011-12-13T18:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T10:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/echostar-contracted-quetzsat-1-sees-full-service-launch\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T10:24:34","slug":"echostar-contracted-quetzsat-1-sees-full-service-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/echostar-contracted-quetzsat-1-sees-full-service-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"EchoStar-Contracted QuetzSat-1 Sees Full Service Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FSS operator&nbsp;<b>SES<\/b>&nbsp;activated full service on its recently launched QuetzSat-1 satellite.&nbsp;The all Ku-band high-powered QuetzSat-1, successfully launched in September on an&nbsp;<b>ILS<\/b>&nbsp;Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, is fully contracted to a subsidiary of&nbsp;<b>EchoStar<\/b>&nbsp;to provide broadcasting satellite coverage over Mexico, the United States and Central America. <br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The spacecraft was built by Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) and based on the manufacturer\u2019s 1300 satellite platform. SS\/L installed 32 Ku-band transponders on QuetzSat-1 to support a broad range of applications and provide high-power DTH broadcasting for a period of 15 years or longer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe state-of-the-art new satellite will support [EchoStar\u2019s] service offer to their customers and continues our longstanding partnership. QuetzSat-1 is the first satellite fully leased to EchoStar, and joins three satellites fully leased by SES to EchoStar\u2019s sister company&nbsp;<b>Dish Network<\/b>,\u201d SES CEO Romain Bausch said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSS operator&nbsp;SES&nbsp;activated full service on its recently launched QuetzSat-1 satellite.&nbsp;The all Ku-band high-powered QuetzSat-1, successfully launched in September on an&nbsp;ILS&nbsp;Proton Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, is fully contracted to a subsidiary of&nbsp;EchoStar&nbsp;to provide broadcasting satellite coverage over Mexico, the United States and Central America. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The spacecraft was built by Space Systems\/Loral [&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-83843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843"}],"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=83843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}