{"id":84111,"date":"2011-10-11T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeings-mexsat-satellites-to-feature-saft-li-ion-batteries\/"},"modified":"2011-10-11T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T10:05:28","slug":"boeings-mexsat-satellites-to-feature-saft-li-ion-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeings-mexsat-satellites-to-feature-saft-li-ion-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Mexsat Satellites to Feature Saft Li-ion Batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battery manufacturer <b>Saft<\/b> will provide <b>Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems<\/b> with lithium-ion (Li-ion) satellite batteries for the upcoming, Boeing-built Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2 satellites.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The new order is the third contract issued under Saft\u2019s existing long-term Li-ion GEO satellite battery supply agreement, which it signed with Boeing in 2009.<br \/>\nSaft will provide its high-energy qualified VES140S battery cells for the Mexsat satellites. The battery packs aim to power the satellites with 14 kilowatts of onboard power during its bi-annual, 45-day-long eclipse periods in GEO orbit.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; Boeing is building and designing the Mexsat communications system to provide mobile L-band government and civilian broadband communications, while supporting humanitarian needs and enhanced coverage for domestic communications in Mexico. The system will consist of two Boeing 702 HP GEO satellites, Mexsat-1 and -2, and one FSS satellite, Mexsat-3, which was subcontracted out to Orbital Sciences Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery manufacturer Saft will provide Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems with lithium-ion (Li-ion) satellite batteries for the upcoming, Boeing-built Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2 satellites. &nbsp;&nbsp; The new order is the third contract issued under Saft\u2019s existing long-term Li-ion GEO satellite battery supply agreement, which it signed with Boeing in 2009. Saft will provide its high-energy qualified [&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-84111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84111"}],"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=84111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}