{"id":247944,"date":"2011-05-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=cba9fccf31f467d92476c64992bb0e50"},"modified":"2011-05-12T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","slug":"arianespaces-third-ariane-5-of-2011-receives-its-initial-satellite-passenger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=247944","title":{"rendered":"ARIANESPACE\u2019S 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<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0: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=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><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=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=0n82WxuNVwA:yPpR-z480I0:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/0n82WxuNVwA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/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 w&#8230;<\/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-247944","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\/247944","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=247944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247945,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247944\/revisions\/247945"}],"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=247944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}