{"id":87553,"date":"2010-02-03T01:44:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satmex-loses-satmex-5-propulsion-system\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T01:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:44:50","slug":"satmex-loses-satmex-5-propulsion-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satmex-loses-satmex-5-propulsion-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Satmex Loses Satmex 5 Propulsion System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-01-10] <strong>Satelites Mexicanos <\/strong>(Satmex) is experiencing problems with the Satmex 5 satellite\u2019s primary Xenon Ion Propulsion System (XIPS), the operator announced Jan. 28.  \t<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Satmex said that it has not been able to restart the XIPS system after an unexpected shutdown and a failure in its secondary system. The satellite, situated at 116.8 degrees West, is now operating on its back-up bi-propellant propulsion system. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; Satmex also confirmed that its Satmex 5 satellite is not insured for a loss due to a XIPS failure and that the malfunction would likely to lead to a reduced lifetime for the satellite. The back-up system means the satellite will now likely have a remaining life of 2.7 years, as compared to almost four years if the XIPS failure had not occurred. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The operator said it does not expect to restart the XIPS system and will begin plans to obtain financing for a replacement satellite.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Slump or Growth for Satellite Service Providers in  Latin America<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 1, 2010<br \/>\nAccording to Andrea Maleter, technical  director, Futron,  There is a fair amount of private equity money still  going into (Latin America s) satellite business. Latin American  telecoms, in general, has seen a fair amount of consolidation\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Hispasat Upgrades to SAT Corp. MonicsNet Detection  Systems<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMarch 24, 2009<br \/>\n[03-24-09] SAT Corp., a  subsidiary of Integral Systems, received a contract from Hispasat to  upgrade the carrier monitoring system throughout Hispasat\u2019s network,  extending its MonicsNet network to support the Amazonas 1 and  Amazonas\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">SS\/L Captures Satmex 7 Contract<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJune 25, 2008<br \/>\n[  8-25-08] Satelites  Mexicanos S.A.B. de C.V. (Satmex) has authorized Space Systems\/Loral  (SS\/L) to begin construction of the Satmex 7 satellite, Satmex announced  June 24.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-01-10] Satelites Mexicanos (Satmex) is experiencing problems with the Satmex 5 satellite\u2019s primary Xenon Ion Propulsion System (XIPS), the operator announced Jan. 28. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Satmex said that it has not been able to restart the XIPS system after an unexpected shutdown and a failure in its secondary system. The satellite, situated at 116.8 degrees West, [&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-87553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553"}],"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=87553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}