{"id":85662,"date":"2010-12-16T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/skyterra-1-launch-adds-mobile-capabilities-over-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2010-12-16T00:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:17:02","slug":"skyterra-1-launch-adds-mobile-capabilities-over-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/skyterra-1-launch-adds-mobile-capabilities-over-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyTerra-1 Launch Adds Mobile Capabilities Over the United  States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LightSquared<\/strong> sees the launch of <strong>SkyTerra<\/strong>-1  as a major step in combining satellite systems and 4G-LTE terrestrial  networks and a peek into the future of the North American consumer  market.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Launched Nov. 15 by <strong>International Launch Services<\/strong>  (ILS) on a Proton Breeze M vehicle from Kazakhstan\u2019s Baikonur  Cosmodrome, SkyTerra-1 sent its first signals nine hours after  separating from the launch vehicle, kicking off its mission to expand  the level of coverage throughout the United States. LightSqured, created  in March when Harbinger Capital acquired SkyTerra, is working with  Nokia Siemens Networks to build and operate a 4G-LTE satellite and  mobile broadband network for wireless providers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cSkyTerra-1 is a key asset,\u201d SkyTerra spokesman Tom Surface said in a statement. \u201cIt holds the advantage in several areas. It has more  power, more capacity and more capability than satellites that have been  launched up to this point. The satellite\u2019s spot beams are also  state-of-the-art and can be moved to cover different parts of a region.  It can have more than 500 spot beams working at the same time.\u201d <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, based on <strong>Boeing<\/strong>\u2019s 702 high-power  platform model, was designed with SkyTerra\u2019s service development  strategy in mind. The satellite\u2019s L-band reflector-based antenna is  22-meters long \u2014 the largest commercial antenna reflector to be put into  service, according to SkyTerra. This development strategy focused on  key technology partnerships to ensure that it would be able to support a  wide range of new capabilities when the satellite was launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LightSquared sees the launch of SkyTerra-1 as a major step in combining satellite systems and 4G-LTE terrestrial networks and a peek into the future of the North American consumer market. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Launched Nov. 15 by International Launch Services (ILS) on a Proton Breeze M vehicle from Kazakhstan\u2019s Baikonur Cosmodrome, SkyTerra-1 sent its first signals nine [&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-85662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662"}],"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=85662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}