{"id":2576,"date":"2010-12-27T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2010-12-27T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T19:42:55","slug":"space-company-launches-european-comm-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"Space Company Launches European Comm. Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2578\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/KA-SAT_Astrium.img_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2578\" title=\"KA-SAT_Astrium.img\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/KA-SAT_Astrium.img_.jpg\" alt=\"Artist view of Eutelsat Ka-Sat (Astrium)\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/KA-SAT_Astrium.img_.jpg 267w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/KA-SAT_Astrium.img_-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist view of Eutelsat Ka-Sat (Astrium)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilslaunch.com\/news-122710\">International Launch Services<\/a> (ILS), a commercial space services company, launched the Ka-Sat satellite (pictured left) to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton rocket from its facility at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan. After a nine-hour mission, the KA-SAT was released into a geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Proton Breeze M vehicle used in this mission is built by Khrunichev Space Center of Moscow, ILS&#8217;s majority owner. ILS says the Proton launch vehicle has a record of 363 missions since its maiden flight in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>The 6,150 kg KA-SAT satellite was built on the Eurostar E3000 platform by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrium.eads.net\/en\/press_centre\/astrium-prepares-for-the-launch-of-eutelsat-s-high-throughput-ka-sat.html\">Astrium<\/a>, the space systems subsidiary of EADS, and has a 15 year life expectancy. The satellite is expected to provide high-speed broadband Internet connectivity to customers in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Launch Services (ILS), a commercial space services company, launched the Ka-Sat satellite (pictured left) to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton rocket from its facility at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan. After a nine-hour mission, the KA-SAT was released into a geostationary transfer orbit. The Proton Breeze M vehicle used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[86,45,105,103],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-engineering","tag-europe","tag-physical-sciences","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}