{"id":87022,"date":"2010-05-03T18:40:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-build-apstar-7b-for-148-7-million\/"},"modified":"2010-05-03T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T10:40:01","slug":"thales-alenia-space-to-build-apstar-7b-for-148-7-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-to-build-apstar-7b-for-148-7-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space to Build Apstar 7B for $148.7 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-03-10] Hong Kong-based operator <strong>APT Satellite Holdings <\/strong>purchased an Apstar 7B satellite and satellite control ground center from <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> for 112.3 million euros ($148.7 million), APT announced. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apstar 7B will carry 28 C-band and 23 Ku-band transponders using a Thales Alenia Space\u2019s Spacebus 4000 C2 platform. The launch will be provided by a Chinese Long March rocket in late 2012, and as part of the launch deal, China has promised APT that it will match lower offers from other commercial launch companies if it receives better terms in the future.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apstar 7B also will serve as a capacity backup in case the Apstar 7 satellite, which Thales Alenia Space was contracted to build in September 2009 for 128.5 million Euros ($170.1 million), fails to enter service in mid-2012.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Telesat CEO Outlines Bandwidth Supply, Policy Issues  Facing FSS Operators in 2010<\/b>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" width=\"12\" height=\"14\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/images\/icon_lock.gif\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 18, 2009<br \/>\n[12-18-09] In 2009, Telesat  focused its efforts on selling capacity aboard new satellites,  culminating with a September deal with EchoStar to take the full  capacity on\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd Nimiq 5. Telesat has also won contracts with Bell TV to  take\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Alenia Space to Build Apstar 7 for China<\/b>&nbsp; \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 2, 2009<br \/>\n[10-02-09] Thales Alenia Space  signed a contract with China s APT Satellite to design, manufacture and  deliver Apstar 7, a high-capacity telecommunication satellite, Thales  Alenia Space announced Sept. 2. The contract also\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">APT Satellite To Look at Middle East and Africa?<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;  \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 23, 2009<br \/>\nAPT Satellite hopes to become more of an  international force across Asia. Yu Yong, APT Satellite s vice president  admitted that the company could even look to possibly even attack  markets outside of Asia. The international strategy will be linked\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-03-10] Hong Kong-based operator APT Satellite Holdings purchased an Apstar 7B satellite and satellite control ground center from Thales Alenia Space for 112.3 million euros ($148.7 million), APT announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apstar 7B will carry 28 C-band and 23 Ku-band transponders using a Thales Alenia Space\u2019s Spacebus 4000 C2 platform. The launch will be provided by [&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-87022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87022"}],"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=87022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}