{"id":88108,"date":"2009-11-12T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/abs-acquires-mabuhay-satellite\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T13:21:23","slug":"abs-acquires-mabuhay-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/abs-acquires-mabuhay-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS Acquires Mabuhay Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asia Broadcast Satellite<\/strong> (ABS) will acquire <strong>Mabuhay Satellite Corp. (<\/strong>MSC), ABS announced Nov. 6. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ABS will gain MSC\u2019s Agila-2 satellite, built by <strong>Space Systems\/Loral<\/strong>&nbsp; and launched in August 1997. The spacecraft carries 24 standard C-band and 6 extended C-band transponders covering Asia from India to Philippines; Japan to Indonesia; and a C-band spot beam over Hawaii to provide connectivity to the United States. Agila-2 also has 24 Ku-band transponders covering the Philippines, coastal China, Taiwan and Hong Kong providing capacity for TV distribution, DTH and VSAT services.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ABS will also gain MSC\u2019s Subic Space Center, a satellite communications facility in the Philippines providing full satellite operations, payload and client monitoring, tracking, telemetry and control services, and a full network operations center.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In July, ABS announced plans to buy the Koreasat-2 satellite, and in June, unveiled details of its new ABS-2 satellite, which will have up to a total of 78 C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band transponders across eight different beams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) will acquire Mabuhay Satellite Corp. (MSC), ABS announced Nov. 6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ABS will gain MSC\u2019s Agila-2 satellite, built by Space Systems\/Loral&nbsp; and launched in August 1997. The spacecraft carries 24 standard C-band and 6 extended C-band transponders covering Asia from India to Philippines; Japan to Indonesia; and a C-band spot beam [&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-88108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88108"}],"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=88108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}