{"id":87715,"date":"2009-12-31T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ss-l-to-build-nimiq-6-for-telesat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:44","slug":"ss-l-to-build-nimiq-6-for-telesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ss-l-to-build-nimiq-6-for-telesat\/","title":{"rendered":"SS\/L to Build Nimiq 6 for Telesat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-31-09] <strong>Space Systems\/Loral<\/strong> (SS\/L) has been contracted to build the Nimiq 6 satellite for <strong>Telesat<\/strong>, SS\/L announced Dec. 30.<br \/>\nThe Ku-band satellite will be based on SS\/L\u2019s 1300 spacecraft bus.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nimiq 6 is fully leased to<strong> Bell TV <\/strong>and will aim to provide Direct-to-Home HDTV and advanced video services in Canada from the 91 degrees West orbital slot. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;In 2009, both Telstar 11N and Nimiq 5 were launched and successfully put into service. Following the success of working with Space Systems\/Loral on these two programs, we were pleased that they were able to provide the best combination of technology, cost and schedule among several competing manufacturers for the Nimiq 6 contract,&#8221; Telesat President and CEO Dan Goldberg said in a statement.<br \/>\nFinancial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-31-09] Space Systems\/Loral (SS\/L) has been contracted to build the Nimiq 6 satellite for Telesat, SS\/L announced Dec. 30. The Ku-band satellite will be based on SS\/L\u2019s 1300 spacecraft bus. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nimiq 6 is fully leased to Bell TV and will aim to provide Direct-to-Home HDTV and advanced video services in Canada from the 91 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87715"}],"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=87715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87904,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87715\/revisions\/87904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}