{"id":87716,"date":"2009-12-30T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ils-launches-directv-12\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:45","slug":"ils-launches-directv-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ils-launches-directv-12\/","title":{"rendered":"ILS Launches DirecTV-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] <strong>International Launch Services<\/strong> (ILS) successfully launched the <strong>DirecTV<\/strong>-12 satellite aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Khrunichev Research and Production Center in Baikonur, ILS announced Dec. 29.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, built by <strong>Boeing <\/strong>based on its 702 platform, aims to expand the U.S. pay-TV provider\u2019s HD capacity in order to offer up to 200 high-definition channels.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;The new satellite will increase the number of local HD markets DirecTV will serve and significantly expand movie choices on the DirecTV Cinema and DirecTV on Demand services,&#8221; the company said in a statement,<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DirecTV-12 is expected to be operational in the early second quarter of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-30-09] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the DirecTV-12 satellite aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Khrunichev Research and Production Center in Baikonur, ILS announced Dec. 29. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite, built by Boeing based on its 702 platform, aims to expand the U.S. pay-TV provider\u2019s HD capacity in order to offer up to [&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-87716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87716"}],"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=87716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87905,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87716\/revisions\/87905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}