{"id":2563,"date":"2017-10-04T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2017-10-02T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:04:56","slug":"proton-masiasat-9-rollout-and-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=2563","title":{"rendered":"Proton-M\/AsiaSat-9 Rollout and Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/us6VX6Dg3q4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HwlwdJZpUTg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AsiaSat\">Wikipedia<\/a> dixit:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited known as its brand name AsiaSat is a commercial operator of communication spacecraft. AsiaSat is based in Hong Kong but incorporated in Bermuda. It is a red chip company, as it was (jointly) controlled by Chinese state-owned CITIC Group indirectly. It had a market capitalization of HK$3.251 billion on 30 June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2013, AsiaSat commissioned AsiaSat 9 to be built by Space Systems\/Loral, originally intending it to be launched in Q2 2017 in order to replace AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees east. In early 2015, AsiaSat reported a nine percent revenue drop, and a 27 percent drop in contracts, pointing to a regional oversupply of satellite communication services in the Asian regions it serves. At that time, AsiaSat had four commsats in operation and had recently launched two more, AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8, which had added 22 percent additional bandwidth capacity into the shrinking market. Although revenues were down just nine percent\u2014to HK$1365 billion\u20142014 profits declined by 25 percent over 2013, to HK$559 million.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video credit: Roscosmos<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited known as its brand name AsiaSat is a commercial operator of communication spacecraft. AsiaSat is based in Hong Kong but incorporated in Bermuda. It is a red chip company, as it was (jointly) controlled by Chinese state-owned CITIC Group indirectly. It had a market capitalization of HK$3.251 billion on 30 June 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,1,463],"tags":[638,639,535,467],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launchers","category-space-exploration","category-videos","tag-asiasat","tag-asiasat-9","tag-proton-m","tag-roscosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}