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Ipstar launched successfully |
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by Stuart Corner
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Saturday, 10 September 2005 |
Ipstar-1, the world's largest commercial satellite, was successfully
launched yesterday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European
spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite will take around 10
days to reach it geostationary orbit location and commercial services
are expected to commence around the beginning of November.
Ipstar-1, also known as Thaicom 4 has been designed to provide
broadband services to both enterprises and consumers throughout 14
countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It has a total data throughput
capacity of over 45 Gbps and is designed to provide users with data
speeds of up to 4Mbps on the forward link and 2Mbps on the return link.
It will use its seven on-board antennas to create 112 spot and regional
beams in the Ku and Ka bands.
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