{"id":84325,"date":"2011-08-29T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/boeing-selects-saft-lithium-batteries-for-two-mexsat-satellites\/"},"modified":"2011-08-29T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T10:43:43","slug":"boeing-selects-saft-lithium-batteries-for-two-mexsat-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/boeing-selects-saft-lithium-batteries-for-two-mexsat-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Selects Saft Lithium Batteries for Two Mexsat Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-29-11] Battery manufacturer <b>Saft<\/b> has won a multi-million dollar contract from <b>Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems<\/b> to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) satellite batteries for the upcoming, Boeing-built Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2 satellites, Saft announced Aug. 26.<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 <b>Mexsat<\/b> 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>[08-29-11] Battery manufacturer Saft has won a multi-million dollar contract from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to supply lithium-ion (Li-ion) satellite batteries for the upcoming, Boeing-built Mexsat-1 and Mexsat-2 satellites, Saft announced Aug. 26. &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 [&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-84325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84325"}],"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=84325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}