{"id":86828,"date":"2010-06-14T19:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ss-l-contracted-to-build-directv-14\/"},"modified":"2010-06-14T19:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:26:08","slug":"ss-l-contracted-to-build-directv-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ss-l-contracted-to-build-directv-14\/","title":{"rendered":"SS\/L Contracted to Build DirecTV 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-14-10] <strong>Space Systems\/Loral <\/strong>(SS\/L) has entered into a contract to build the DirecTV 14 high-power satellite for <strong>DirectTV<\/strong>, SS\/L announced June 11. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new satellite, which was started earlier this quarter under an authorization to proceed and based on SS\/L 1300 satellite platform, is a 20 kilowatt spacecraft that will use Ka-band and reverse DBS to expand DirecTV\u2019s company\u2019s video services and HD programming to both national and local markets. DirecTV 14 will be the sixth SS\/L 1300 satellite platform in the pay TV operator\u2019s fleet.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe believe it is a combination of great satellites and excellent service that keeps long-standing customers such as DIRECTV coming back to us for their spacecraft. Our satellite platform is well-suited to helping companies make use of newly available spectrum such as RDBS, and our experience with 20-kilowatt-class satellites is unsurpassed,\u201d SS\/L President John Celli said in a statement. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">SS\/L to Go Public; Loral Files IPO with SEC<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 11, 2010<br \/>\n[06-10-10] Space Systems\/Loral  (SS\/L) has registered for an initial public offering (IPO) with the  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SS\/L parent company Loral  announced June 10. SS\/L will offer up to 19.9 percent\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Loral CEO Targoff Reveals Intent to Sell Part of SS\/L  Stake<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; May 12, 2010<br \/>\n[Satellite  TODAY 05-12-10] Loral CEO Michael Targoff confirmed that the company  intends to sell a portion of its stake in Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L)  while announcing Loral s 2010 first quarter results, released May 11. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">SS\/L Delivers Dish Network s EchoStar 15 to ILS<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  Satellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; June  10, 2010<br \/>\n[06-10-10]  Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) has shipped Dish Network s EchoStar 15  communications satellite to the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan,  where International Launch Services (ILS) will launch the spacecraft in  early July\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-14-10] Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) has entered into a contract to build the DirecTV 14 high-power satellite for DirectTV, SS\/L announced June 11. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The new satellite, which was started earlier this quarter under an authorization to proceed and based on SS\/L 1300 satellite platform, is a 20 kilowatt spacecraft that will use Ka-band and reverse [&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-86828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86828"}],"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=86828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}