{"id":85606,"date":"2010-12-30T18:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T10:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-to-launch-satmex-8-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T10:43:44","slug":"ils-to-launch-satmex-8-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-to-launch-satmex-8-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS to Launch Satmex 8 in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-10] <strong>Satmex<\/strong> has selected <strong>International Launch Services<\/strong> (ILS) to launch the Satmex 8 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the third quarter of 2012, ILS announced Dec. 29. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The high-power satellite is currently under construction by <strong>Space Systems\/Loral <\/strong>(SS\/L) and will be based on SS\/L\u2019s 1300 platform. Satmex 8 will be equipped with 24 C- and 40 Ku-band transponders to replace Satmex 5 at the 116.8 degrees West orbital location. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Satmex 8 aims to provide FSS service over the continental United States to Argentina as well as the Caribbean, all of Latin America and the major cities of Brazil.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSatmex requires a high level of schedule assurance and flexibility, which we believe can be provided at this time by a dedicated launch on ILS Proton,\u201d Satmex CEO Patricio Northland said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-10] Satmex has selected International Launch Services (ILS) to launch the Satmex 8 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the third quarter of 2012, ILS announced Dec. 29. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The high-power satellite is currently under construction by Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) and will be based on SS\/L\u2019s 1300 [&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-85606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85606"}],"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=85606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}