{"id":36302,"date":"2010-06-29T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eutelsat.com\/news\/compress\/en\/2010\/pdf\/PR2910-W5A.pdf"},"modified":"2010-06-29T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:00:00","slug":"eutelsat-selects-astrium-to-deliver-w5a-satellite-to-drive-up-capacity-and-flexibility-at-70-5-degrees-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=36302","title":{"rendered":"EUTELSAT SELECTS ASTRIUM TO DELIVER W5A SATELLITE \r\nTO DRIVE UP CAPACITY AND FLEXIBILITY AT 70.5 DEGREES EAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world\u2019s leading satellite operators, announced today that it has selected Astrium to build a 48-transponder Ku-band satellite that will be located at its 70.5\u00b0 East location in geostationary orbit. Scheduled for launch in fourth quarter 2012, the satellite will replace the W5 craft and more than double Eutelsat\u2019s resources at 70.5\u00b0 East. It will be used for a range of professional applications that include government services, broadband access, GSM backhauling and professional video exchanges in Europe, Africa and Central and South-East Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL), one of the world\u2019s leading satellite operators, announced today that it has selected Astrium to build a 48-transponder Ku-band satellite that will be located at its 70.5\u00b0 East location in geostationary orbit. Scheduled for launch in fourth quarter 2012, the satellite will replace the W5 craft and more than double Eutelsat\u2019s resources at 70.5\u00b0 East. It will be used for a range of professional applications that include government services, broadband access, GSM backhauling and professional video exchanges in Europe, Africa and Central and South-East Asia.<\/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-36302","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\/36302","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=36302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36302\/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=36302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}