{"id":192411,"date":"2011-04-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/a6b9e657ed778c77be3e1b8f69ed1ce2"},"modified":"2011-04-26T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"abs-2-to-be-launched-by-arianespace-in-2013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=192411","title":{"rendered":"ABS-2 to be launched by Arianespace in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has confirmed the launch date for Asia Broadcast Satellite&#8217;s (ABS) ABS-2 spacecraft, which will be orbited by a heavy-lift Ariane 5 in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured by Space Systems\/Loral using an LS-1300 platform, ABS-2 will weigh more than 6,000 kg. at launch. It is fitted with C, Ku, and Ka-band transponders, and is to provide optimized direct TV broadcast, multimedia applications, telecommunications and data transmission services for Asia, Russia\/CIS, Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has confirmed the launch date for Asia Broadcast Satellite&#8217;s (ABS) ABS-2 spacecraft, which will be orbited by a heavy-lift Ariane 5 in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Manufactured by Space Systems\/Loral using an LS-1300 platform, ABS-2 will weigh more than 6,000 kg. at launch. It is fitted with C, Ku, and Ka-band transponders, and is to provide optimized direct TV broadcast, multimedia applications, telecommunications and data transmission services for Asia, Russia\/CIS, Africa and the Middle East.<\/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-192411","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\/192411","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=192411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192411\/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=192411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}