{"id":84757,"date":"2011-06-01T22:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/telstar-14rs-north-solar-array-suffers-deployment-anomaly\/"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T14:31:03","slug":"telstar-14rs-north-solar-array-suffers-deployment-anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/telstar-14rs-north-solar-array-suffers-deployment-anomaly\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstar 14R\u2019s North Solar Array Suffers Deployment Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian satellite operator <b>Telesat<\/b>\u2019s new 14R\/Estrela do  Sul 2 satellite, in a worst-case scenario, may only operate at around 50  percent of its full capacity. Telesat said in a press statement issued  May 25 that the satellite\u2019s north solar array has failed to fully  deploy. The south solar array has deployed successfully and is providing  power to the spacecraft, which is stable and is otherwise operating as  expected. A source close to the situation called the issue \u201can unusual  problem.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Telesat went further in the press statement and  said that it expects the satellite will \u201cat a minimum, support all of  the existing services to customers presently provided by Telstar  14\/Estrela do Sul, the satellite it will replace at 63 degrees West.\u201d  The new satellite has almost double the capacity of Telstar 14\/Estrela  do Sul, the satellite it is replacing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite\u2019s manufacturer, <b>Space Systems\/Loral<\/b>  (SS\/L), is analyzing data from the satellite to better understand the  situation and determine what steps, if any, can be taken to attempt to  rectify the north solar array deployment failure. If SS\/L is unable to  resolve the issue, then the satellite may in essence only reach 50  percent of its full capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian satellite operator Telesat\u2019s new 14R\/Estrela do Sul 2 satellite, in a worst-case scenario, may only operate at around 50 percent of its full capacity. Telesat said in a press statement issued May 25 that the satellite\u2019s north solar array has failed to fully deploy. The south solar array has deployed successfully and is providing [&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-84757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84757"}],"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=84757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}