{"id":84045,"date":"2011-10-26T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-activates-atlantic-bird-7-service\/"},"modified":"2011-10-26T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T09:30:15","slug":"eutelsat-activates-atlantic-bird-7-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-activates-atlantic-bird-7-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Activates Atlantic Bird 7 Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-26-11] <b>Eutelsat<\/b> has activated commercial service on its Atlantic Bird 7 satellite at the 7 degrees West orbital position, the operator announced Oct. 24.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Sea Launch carried the satellite into orbit in September and Eutelsat transferred all of Atlantic Bird 4A\u2019s television channels onto Atlantic Bird 7 on Oct. 23. More than 400 TV channels are now broadcasting via Atlantic Bird 7 to approximately 30 million homes located across the North African Atlantic coastline to the Gulf States.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The operator said the satellite\u2019s entry into service aims to strengthen its relationship with Egyptian satellite operator <b>Nilesat<\/b>, which also manages its own system of three satellites at the 7 degrees West neighborhood. \u201cSupplemental capacity will anchor the 7 degrees west neighborhood in the satellite broadcasting market across the MENA region, enabling Nilesat and Eutelsat to boost resources for digital channels and HDTV which is making inroads at 7 degrees West with 30 HDTV channels broadcasting,\u201d Eutelsat said in a company statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Nilesat is leasing Atlantic Bird 7 transponders in addition to maintaining its leases transferred from Atlantic Bird 4A, which is being redeployed to the 3 degrees East orbital slot to address data and telecoms markets in Europe and South-West Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-26-11] Eutelsat has activated commercial service on its Atlantic Bird 7 satellite at the 7 degrees West orbital position, the operator announced Oct. 24. &nbsp; &nbsp;Sea Launch carried the satellite into orbit in September and Eutelsat transferred all of Atlantic Bird 4A\u2019s television channels onto Atlantic Bird 7 on Oct. 23. More than 400 TV [&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-84045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045"}],"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=84045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}