{"id":87753,"date":"2009-12-18T18:17:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-build-is-23-for-intelsat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:19","slug":"orbital-sciences-to-build-is-23-for-intelsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-sciences-to-build-is-23-for-intelsat\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Sciences to Build IS-23 for Intelsat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> has been selected by <strong>Intelsat<\/strong> to build the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) communications satellite based on Orbital\u2019s Star-2 platform, the company announced Dec. 17.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IS-23 will to provide communications services for the Americas, Europe and Africa through 15 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders from 53 degrees West. The satellite is scheduled to be launched in late 2011.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IS-23 will be the 10th Intelsat satellite built by Orbital. Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Intelsat 15 Launched by Sea Launch<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tDecember 2, 2009<br \/>\n[12-02-09] Sea Launch has launched the Intelsat 15 satellite using a Land Launch vehicle at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sea Launch announced Nov 30. Liftoff occurred at 4:00 p.m. EST, followed by signal acquisition.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Mitsubishi Wins Contract to Supply Orbital With Cygnus Guidance Systems<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 23, 2009<br \/>\n[10-23-09] Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has received a $66 million contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to supply proximity link system (PLS) components to Orbital s Cygnus spacecraft in order to guide it to the International Space\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Satellite Manufacturers Ready to Get Tough on Pricing<\/b> Satellite News&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSeptember 11, 2009<br \/>\n[09-11-09] In the Satellite Manufacturers Adapting to Changing Requirements panel at Euroconsult s World Satellite Business Week, industry leaders admitted some of the biggest issues facing satellite manufacturers was keeping\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-18-09] Orbital Sciences has been selected by Intelsat to build the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) communications satellite based on Orbital\u2019s Star-2 platform, the company announced Dec. 17. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IS-23 will to provide communications services for the Americas, Europe and Africa through 15 Ku-band and 24 C-band transponders from 53 degrees West. The satellite is scheduled 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-87753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753"}],"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=87753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87940,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87753\/revisions\/87940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}