{"id":51759,"date":"2024-02-23T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/luxembourg-orders-2-new-ground-stations-from-ses-and-hitec\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:22:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:22:52","slug":"luxembourg-orders-2-new-ground-stations-from-ses-and-hitec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/luxembourg-orders-2-new-ground-stations-from-ses-and-hitec\/","title":{"rendered":"Luxembourg Orders 2 New Ground Stations from SES and HITEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The <b>Luxembourg Directorate of Defence<\/b> (DoD) procured two ground stations from <b>SES<\/b> and <b>HITEC Luxembourg<\/b> to support military satellite communications. SES and HITEC announced the award on Feb. 22.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These two new ground stations will be installed at the Luxembourg Army\u2019s Military Centre in Diekirch for Luxembourg\u2019s GovSat-1 satellite services and for the Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) system. These two ground stations will bring the total number of the DoD\u2019s ground antennas to four. SES and HITEC supplied the existing ones 10 years ago. SES said these new ground stations will add interoperability with NATO partner systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GovSat is a public private partnership between SES and the government of Luxembourg, launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccess to secure satellite communications has always been among the priorities and strengths of Luxembourg, allowing the country to reinforce defense capabilities, as well as enabling fulfillment of Luxembourg\u2019s commitments towards the EU and NATO,\u201d commented Yuriko Backes, Luxembourg Minister of Defence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence (DoD) procured two ground stations from SES and HITEC Luxembourg to support military satellite communications. SES and HITEC announced the award on Feb. 22.&nbsp; These two new ground stations will be installed at the Luxembourg Army\u2019s Military Centre in Diekirch for Luxembourg\u2019s GovSat-1 satellite services and for the Wideband Global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51763,"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-51759","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\/51759"}],"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=51759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}