{"id":6420,"date":"2008-12-29T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-29T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T15:23:00","slug":"rocket-puts-telecom-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/6420-rocket-puts-telecom-satellites-into-orbit.html","title":{"rendered":"Rocket puts telecom satellites into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ariane rocket placed two Eutelsat Communications satellites, Hot Bird 9 and W2M, into orbit after blasting off Saturday from Kourou space centre in French Guiana, Arianespace announced.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of the rocket, the sixth Ariane this year, took place at 2235 GMT after a 45-minute delay in the countdown caused by a problem connected with the feed of liquid hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Hot Bird 9, built by EADS-Astrium, will beam television programmes to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa while W2M, built by EADS-Astrium and Indian space agency Isro, will feed central and eastern Europe as well as Indian Ocean islands.<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat said the two satellites were the first elements of a &quot;major expansion programme&quot; made up of seven satellites that are to be launched by the end of 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ariane rocket placed two Eutelsat Communications satellites, Hot Bird 9 and W2M, into orbit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}