{"id":65300,"date":"2018-05-04T00:34:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/could-facebook-be-building-its-own-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T00:34:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:34:39","slug":"could-facebook-be-building-its-own-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/could-facebook-be-building-its-own-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Facebook be Building Its Own Satellite?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Facebook looks to be building its own satellite to launch 2019 to test providing broadband connectivity from Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). A company called PointView Tech, which seems to be a new Facebook subsidiary, according to IEEE Spectrum, filed an&nbsp;experimental licensing application to the U.S. <strong>Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (FCC) last week asking for authorization to \u201claunch and operate a single Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), Nongeostationary Orbit (NGSO) satellite.\u201d According to the application, the satellite is called Athena and its main communications payload links \u201cwill operate in the little-used E-band spectrum \u2013 71-76 GHz for the downlinks, 81-86 GHz for the uplinks.\u201d PointView\u2019s request also includes two Earth stations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Read more at IEEE Spectrum &gt;&gt;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook looks to be building its own satellite to launch 2019 to test providing broadband connectivity from Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). A company called PointView Tech, which seems to be a new Facebook subsidiary, according to IEEE Spectrum, filed an&nbsp;experimental licensing application to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week asking for authorization to \u201claunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65303,"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-65300","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\/65300"}],"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=65300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}