{"id":63638,"date":"2018-11-09T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-hands-over-bandabandhu-1-control-to-bangladesh\/"},"modified":"2018-11-09T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:24:09","slug":"thales-alenia-space-hands-over-bandabandhu-1-control-to-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-hands-over-bandabandhu-1-control-to-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space Hands Over Bandabandhu-1 Control to Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>&nbsp;handed over transmission and operation management of&nbsp;Bangabandhu-1 to Bangladesh, and the country will start the commercial activities of the satellite.&nbsp;Bangabandhu-1 is Bangladesh\u2019s first Geostationary Orbit (GEO) communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of Thales Alenia Space handed over relevant documents to acting chairman of <strong>Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission<\/strong> (BTRC) Jahurul Haque.&nbsp;Two ground stations \u2014one in Betbunia in Rangamati and the other at Joydevpur in Gazipur \u2014 have been set up to control the satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Thales Alenia Space designed and built the satellite launched into the orbit on May 11. The satellite was launched using the latest version of <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2018s upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thales Alenia Space&nbsp;handed over transmission and operation management of&nbsp;Bangabandhu-1 to Bangladesh, and the country will start the commercial activities of the satellite.&nbsp;Bangabandhu-1 is Bangladesh\u2019s first Geostationary Orbit (GEO) communications satellite. A delegation of Thales Alenia Space handed over relevant documents to acting chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Jahurul Haque.&nbsp;Two ground stations \u2014one in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63639,"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-63638","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\/63638"}],"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=63638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}