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Shin Satellite Signs Up India's ITI; iPSTAR Satellite Ready to Ship |
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NONTHABURI, Thailand, March 10, 2005/Satnews Daily/ — Thailand's Shin Satellite PCL (SATTEL.TH) has signed a contract to supply India's ITI Ltd.(523610.BY) with broadband satellite services from iPSTAR satellite to be launched middle of this year.
Shin Satellite said the multi-million-dollar deal will enable Bangalore-based ITI to offer a wide variety of specialized high-speed internet-based services to its clients throughout India. The network would be set up in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Ernakulam, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai and Pune First, Shin said.
No financial details of the contract were provided.
ITI, is one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment maker. It is an Indian state enterprise under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Meanwhile, Shin revealed it completed pre-shipment review of its iPSTAR-1 broadband satellite in January and is now finalizing plans to deliver the satellite to the European launch service provider, Arianespace. The pre-shipment review confirms that the satellite has passed all critical tests and is ready for packing in preparation for delivery to the launcher.
In the next few weeks, Shin Satellite, together with the satellite manufacturer, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), will have completed all final action items for the preparation of the satellite for shipment to the Kourou Space Center, in French Guiana, South America. The satellite will then be placed into soft storage and will be shipped via air transportation to the launch site once authorized.
In mid March, Shin Satellite, SS/L, the satellite manufacturer, and Arianespace, the launch service provider, will hold joint launch base operations planning meeting and Final Mission Analysis Review (RAMF). The parties will review the integration plan of satellite to launch vehicle, and the results of final system qualification, flight trajectory of launch vehicle and insertion of the satellite to transfer orbit. This is to demonstrate that the Ariane 5 G will be able to fulfill the mission of lifting the IPSTAR satellite into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) as required.
At 6.5 tons, the iPSTAR-1 will be one of the largest commercial telecommunications satellite to be launched to date. The satisfactory completion of RAMF will lead to authorization to ship and a fixed launch date.
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