{"id":50578,"date":"2024-09-11T19:16:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thursday-morning-conversation-with-neo-space-group-ceo-martijn-blanken\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T19:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:16:08","slug":"thursday-morning-conversation-with-neo-space-group-ceo-martijn-blanken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thursday-morning-conversation-with-neo-space-group-ceo-martijn-blanken\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Morning Conversation with Neo Space Group CEO Martijn Blanken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Neo Space Group<\/strong> (NSG) is a new player in the space industry in the Middle East, looking to champion Saudi Arabia\u2019s space industry. Backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Neo Space Group has ambitions to bring the benefits of the latest satellite technology throughout Saudi Arabia. In this week\u2019s Thursday Morning Conversation, Neo Space Group\u2019s recently appointed CEO Martijn Blanken joins for a conversation about the company\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>The company was started as part of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030 national program to diversify the nation\u2019s economy. It has a broad mandate in the space industry, across satellite communications, geospatial, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), as well as a venture capital arm to invest in space startups. In a new Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC), we talk to Blanken about his hopes and aspirations for NSG and what kind of impact the PIF-backed company can have in the global satellite market.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thursday Morning Conversation with Neo Space Group CEO Martijn Blanken\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wQkSM_sBx1c?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.satellitetoday.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-13602404_75=\"true\" id=\"499603966\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-12=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Via Satellite<\/em>\u2018s Thursday Morning Conversations feature casual conversations with top executives and all-stars in the satellite community. In addition to what\u2019s happening in the business of satellite, TMCs dig into what\u2019s happening outside the office. Favorite TV show, first music concert, preferred late night snack \u2014 nothing is off the table in Thursday Morning Conversations!&nbsp;Catch up on&nbsp;all of the previous&nbsp;<em>Via Satellite<\/em>&nbsp;TMCs right here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neo Space Group (NSG) is a new player in the space industry in the Middle East, looking to champion Saudi Arabia\u2019s space industry. Backed by the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Neo Space Group has ambitions to bring the benefits of the latest satellite technology throughout Saudi Arabia. In this week\u2019s Thursday Morning Conversation, Neo Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50580,"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-50578","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\/50578"}],"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=50578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}