{"id":87264,"date":"2010-03-23T00:57:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrium-completes-ka-sat-communications-module\/"},"modified":"2010-03-23T00:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:57:02","slug":"astrium-completes-ka-sat-communications-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrium-completes-ka-sat-communications-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrium Completes Ka-Sat Communications Module"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-22-10] <strong>Astrium<\/strong> has completed a communications module for <strong>Eutelsat<\/strong>\u2019s high-speed broadband communications satellite, Ka-Sat, the operator announced March 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The communications module, designed to receive and transmit tw-way broadband services, has been transferred from Astrium\u2019s manufacturing facilities and integrated with the satellite\u2019s service module for testing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ka-Sat, scheduled to launch at the end of 2010, will deliver Eutelsat\u2019s Tooway broadband service to homes beyond the range of terrestrial networks in the United Kingdom at speeds of 10 megabits per second (Mbps) or higher.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cTooway\u2019s existing satellite broadband service can already more than meet the government\u2019s Digital Britain target of a 2 Mbps service for all U.K. residents, but Ka-Sat will ensure that the broadband needs of U..K rural residents continues to be met far into the future,\u201d Eutelsat\u2019s Northern European Tooway Sales Director Steve Petrie said in a statement.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Sector Must Address Launch, Interference<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 17, 2010<br \/>\nby Mark Holmes    New Eutelsat CEO Michel de  Rosen made a strong impression on the  The Big Four: Agenda for the  Coming Decade  opening panel at SATELLITE 2010, joining fellow  executives from Intelsat, SES and Telesat to address issues such as\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Michel de Rosen CEO, Eutelsat Communications<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 1, 2010<br \/>\nMichel de Rosen took over the role of CEO of  Eutelsat Communications from Giuliano Berretta in November. For most of  the previous decade, he served as chairman and CEO of ViroPharma, a U.S.  pharmarceutical company and since 2008 as chairman and CEO\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Eutelsat Shifts 2010 Launch Schedule<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 22, 2010<br \/>\n[02-22-10] Eutelsat s W3B will  be launched by Arianespace between August and September after Thales  Alenia Space, the spacecraft s prime contractor, renegotiated its  previous launch arrangements with China in order to meet delivery\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-22-10] Astrium has completed a communications module for Eutelsat\u2019s high-speed broadband communications satellite, Ka-Sat, the operator announced March 19. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The communications module, designed to receive and transmit tw-way broadband services, has been transferred from Astrium\u2019s manufacturing facilities and integrated with the satellite\u2019s service module for testing. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ka-Sat, scheduled to launch at the end [&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-87264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264"}],"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=87264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}