{"id":83999,"date":"2011-11-04T19:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-1-arrives-at-geosynchronous-orbit-post-launch-operations-on-schedule\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T19:51:11","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:51:11","slug":"viasat-1-arrives-at-geosynchronous-orbit-post-launch-operations-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-1-arrives-at-geosynchronous-orbit-post-launch-operations-on-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat-1 Arrives at Geosynchronous Orbit; Post-Launch Operations on Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-04-11] The ViaSat-1 satellite has reached its position in geosynchronous orbit and will begin post-launch operations and in-orbit testing on schedule, operator <b>ViaSat<\/b> confirmed Nov. 3.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Since launching Oct. 19 on an <b>International Launch Services (ILS) <\/b>Proton rocket, ViaSat has successfully deployed ViaSat-1\u2019s solar arrays, six apogee motor firings, main- and sub-reflectors and stationary plasma thrusters for satellite positioning. The 140 Gbps capacity satellite is scheduled to enter initial service in late December, with full service sequentially expanding across the United States over the following months.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cOn Wednesday, [Nov. 2] the satellite\u2019s payload was switched on, enabling the first high-capacity satellite over North America to begin a series of in-orbit tests. Those tests will be followed by a move to its operational orbital location,\u201d ViaSat said in a company statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;ViaSat -1 was built by <b>Space Systems\/Loral<\/b> and is the second multi-spotbeam satellite to use ViaSat\u2019s transformational high-capacity satellite system architecture, following the launch of services on <b>Eutelsat<\/b> Ka-Sat in Europe earlier this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-04-11] The ViaSat-1 satellite has reached its position in geosynchronous orbit and will begin post-launch operations and in-orbit testing on schedule, operator ViaSat confirmed Nov. 3. &nbsp; &nbsp;Since launching Oct. 19 on an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket, ViaSat has successfully deployed ViaSat-1\u2019s solar arrays, six apogee motor firings, main- and sub-reflectors and stationary [&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-83999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999"}],"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=83999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}