{"id":156419,"date":"2012-10-10T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eutelsat.com\/news\/compress\/en\/2012\/pdf\/PR 6512 E8WB.pdf"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:00:00","slug":"eutelsat-selects-thales-alenia-space-to-build-the-eutelsat-8-west-b-satellite-boosting-satellite-broadcasting-resources-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=156419","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat selects Thales Alenia Space to build the \r\nEUTELSAT 8 West B satellite, boosting satellite broadcasting resources in the Middle East and North Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa will soon be gaining powerful new broadcasting resources following the order announced today by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) of a new satellite from Thales Alenia Space. Called EUTELSAT 8 West B, the high-capacity spacecraft will be launched in 2015 to 8\u00b0 West, joining satellites already operated at the adjacent 7\u00b0 West position by Eutelsat and the Egyptian satellite company, Nilesat. Broadcasting services from both positions are received by satellite TV homes with a single small Direct-to-Home dish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa will soon be gaining powerful new broadcasting resources following the order announced today by Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) of a new satellite from Thales Alenia Space. Called EUTELSAT 8 West B, the high-capacity spacecraft will be launched in 2015 to 8\u00b0 West, joining satellites already operated at the adjacent 7\u00b0 West position by Eutelsat and the Egyptian satellite company, Nilesat. Broadcasting services from both positions are received by satellite TV homes with a single small Direct-to-Home dish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Eutelsat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}