{"id":47371,"date":"2026-03-16T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/belgium-selects-redwire-to-build-natsec-satellite\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T09:59:38","slug":"belgium-selects-redwire-to-build-natsec-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/belgium-selects-redwire-to-build-natsec-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Selects Redwire to Build Natsec Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Florida-based aerospace and defense company <strong>Redwire <\/strong>has won a prime contract from the Belgian federal government to build the nation\u2019s first national security satellite in collaboration with <strong>Aerospacelab<\/strong>, the company announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgian Defense <\/strong>is fully funding the contract, and Redwire and Aerospacelab will jointly develop the satellite, Redwire said in a statement. The mission, known as MATTEO, will enhance Belgium\u2019s ability to monitor and respond to regional and global security challenges, in support of Belgium\u2019s \u201cNational Defence Industrial Technology Base\u201d strategy, it said.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed spokesperson for Belgian Defense said it would benefit from the in-orbit demonstrator\u2019s cutting-edge technology in the next steps of its space capacity development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to rely on a strong and promising partnership, able to strengthen the national Defense Industrial and Technology Base for the space segment,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cIn these times of global tensions and of a new European awareness, it is a strong and univocal signal. It is necessary to arm ourselves to face the increased challenges in terms of defence, and MATTEO will fully contribute to this necessary shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Redwire declined to discuss the size of the contract and more details about the satellite\u2019s planned capabilities because of the project\u2019s sensitivity to national security.<\/p>\n<p>The contract follows NASA awarding Redwire $4 million in funding for pharmaceutical research on the International Space Station, in addition to a $25 million contract announced last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida-based aerospace and defense company Redwire has won a prime contract from the Belgian federal government to build the nation\u2019s first national security satellite in collaboration with Aerospacelab, the company announced on Monday. Belgian Defense is fully funding the contract, and Redwire and Aerospacelab will jointly develop the satellite, Redwire said in a statement. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}