{"id":84808,"date":"2011-05-24T23:46:09","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-and-arianespace-complete-successful-launches\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T23:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T15:46:09","slug":"ils-and-arianespace-complete-successful-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-and-arianespace-complete-successful-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS and Arianespace Complete Successful Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-24-11] Both <b>International Launch Services <\/b>(ILS) and <b>Arianespace<\/b> completed successful launches May 20.<br \/>\nArianespace successfully launched ST-2 for <b>ST-2 Satellite Ventures<\/b>, a joint venture of <b>SingTel<\/b> and <b>Chunghwa Telecom<\/b>, and GSAT-8 for the <b>Indian Space Research Organization<\/b> (ISRO). The launch is Arianespace\u2019s third successful Ariane 5 launch this year.<br \/>\nThe ST-2 satellite will provide IP-based fixed and mobile, voice and data transmission satellite services to businesses, especially direct broadcast TV operators and maritime companies in Asia and the Middle East. It has a design life of 15 years. The GSAT-8 satellite is fitted with 24 Ku-band transponders, and will mainly provide DTH and radio-navigation services. Its coverage zone includes the entire Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also on May 20, ILS successfully launched <b>Telesat<\/b>\u2019s Telstar 14R\/Estrela do Sul 2 into orbit on an ILS Proton from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Telesat\u2019s Telstar 14R\/Estrela do Sul 2 satellite was built by <b>Space Systems\/Loral <\/b>(SS\/L) on the SS\/L 1300 platform and replaces Telstar 14\/Estrela do Sul at the orbital location of 63 degrees West. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-24-11] Both International Launch Services (ILS) and Arianespace completed successful launches May 20. Arianespace successfully launched ST-2 for ST-2 Satellite Ventures, a joint venture of SingTel and Chunghwa Telecom, and GSAT-8 for the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The launch is Arianespace\u2019s third successful Ariane 5 launch this year. The ST-2 satellite will provide IP-based [&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-84808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84808"}],"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=84808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}