{"id":192404,"date":"2011-05-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/062387376946b98095dd4dbd121f6c25"},"modified":"2011-05-12T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"arianespace%c2%92s-third-ariane-5-of-2011-receives-its-initial-satellite-passenger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=192404","title":{"rendered":"ARIANESPACE\u0092S THIRD ARIANE 5 OF 2011 RECEIVES ITS INITIAL SATELLITE PASSENGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for the May 19 dual-payload mission with Ariane 5 are now in their final phase as the GSAT-8 Indian satellite has been integrated on its launcher.<\/p>\n<p>GSAT-8 will ride as the lower spacecraft in Ariane 5&#8217;s dual-payload &#8220;stack,&#8221; clearing the way for installation of the ST-2 satellite as the upper passenger.  <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organization designed, assembled and integrated GSAT-8 for direct television broadcasting and aircraft navigation assistance; while ST-2 was built by Japan&#8217;s Mitsubishi Electric Company and will be operated for telecommunications relay duties by ST-2 Satellite Ventures Pte Ltd. &#8211; a joint venture of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Chunghwa Telecom Company Limited (Chunghwa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for the May 19 dual-payload mission with Ariane 5 are now in their final phase as the GSAT-8 Indian satellite has been integrated on its launcher.<\/p>\n<p>GSAT-8 will ride as the lower spacecraft in Ariane 5&#8217;s dual-payload &#8220;stack,&#8221; clearing the way for installation of the ST-2 satellite as the upper passenger.  <\/p>\n<p>The Indian Space Research Organization designed, assembled and integrated GSAT-8 for direct television broadcasting and aircraft navigation assistance; while ST-2 was built by Japan&#8217;s Mitsubishi Electric Company and will be operated for telecommunications relay duties by ST-2 Satellite Ventures Pte Ltd. &#8211; a joint venture of Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and Chunghwa Telecom Company Limited (Chunghwa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192404","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192404\/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=192404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}