{"id":227235,"date":"2011-04-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/1720142ee6b95eba42c5d58832fce3d8"},"modified":"2011-04-26T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"abs-2-to-be-launched-by-arianespace-in-2013-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227235","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<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/52rkXz5pJj0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/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<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=52rkXz5pJj0:8P9hIGi321E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/52rkXz5pJj0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/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-227235","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\/227235","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=227235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237574,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227235\/revisions\/237574"}],"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=227235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}