JCSAT-14 ready for launch at Cape Canaveral


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Rebecca Hawkes

| 21 March 2016




Satellite manufacturer Space Systems Loral (SSL) has delivered SKY Perfect’s JCSAT-14 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida ready for launch next month.


The satellite will provide Sky Perfect JSAT with broadcast, data networks and mobility services in Asia, Russia, Oceania and the Pacific Islands after its expected launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle in April.

JCSAT-14 will replace and expand on the capacity of JCSAT-2A in the 154° East orbital slot.

“It has been an honour to work together with SKY Perfect JSAT in building the JCSAT-14 satellite,” said John Celli, president of SSL. “We are very pleased that the satellite is now at launch base and look forward to a successful launch campaign.”

SSL is also building Sky Perfect’s JCSAT-15 and JCSAT-16, both of which are scheduled to launch in 2016.