{"id":84065,"date":"2011-10-20T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-1-rides-into-orbit-on-ils-proton\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:29:41","slug":"viasat-1-rides-into-orbit-on-ils-proton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-1-rides-into-orbit-on-ils-proton\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat-1 Rides into Orbit on ILS Proton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-20-11] The four-year-long effort to send <b>ViaSat\u2019s<\/b> high-throughput, all Ka-band satellite ViaSat-1 into orbit ended successfully and on schedule as <b>International Launch Services (ILS)<\/b> launched the spacecraft Oct. 19 with no apparent problems, the launcher confirmed.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton M rocket during clear and chilly temperatures in the low 40s. The launch was originally scheduled for Spring 2011, but was pushed back to the end of summer. The mission was delayed a second time when a solar array onboard the Telstar 14R satellite failed to fully deploy following its launch in May.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;With a capacity estimated at 140 Gbps \u2013 more than all other Internet satellites over North America combined \u2013 ViaSat-1 aims to provide high-capacity Ka-band spot beam satellite with planned coverage over North America and Hawaii, along with high-speed broadband services for WildBlue in the United States and Xplornet in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-20-11] The four-year-long effort to send ViaSat\u2019s high-throughput, all Ka-band satellite ViaSat-1 into orbit ended successfully and on schedule as International Launch Services (ILS) launched the spacecraft Oct. 19 with no apparent problems, the launcher confirmed. &nbsp; &nbsp;The satellite launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton M rocket during clear and chilly temperatures [&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-84065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065"}],"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=84065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}