{"id":65330,"date":"2018-05-02T18:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T10:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/israeli-government-snubs-spacecom-to-buy-satellite-from-iai\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T18:31:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T10:31:05","slug":"israeli-government-snubs-spacecom-to-buy-satellite-from-iai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/israeli-government-snubs-spacecom-to-buy-satellite-from-iai\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Government Snubs Spacecom, to Buy Satellite from IAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spacecom Satellite Communications <\/strong>notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Monday that it had learned from a government source that the State of Israel intends to buy a new communications satellite from <strong>Israel Aerospace Industries<\/strong> (IAI). The new satellite will be positioned at 4 degrees west, in accordance with the state\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>This represents a serious blow to Spacecom, after it announced a month ago that it would buy its planned Amos 8 satellite from U.S. company <strong>SSL<\/strong>, and not from IAI. A battle ensued between Spacecom and IAI over the future of satellite communications in Israel. IAI expressed the fear that Spacecom\u2019s decision to buy a satellite from a foreign company would adversely affect the future of its communications satellites business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Read more at Globes &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecom Satellite Communications notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Monday that it had learned from a government source that the State of Israel intends to buy a new communications satellite from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The new satellite will be positioned at 4 degrees west, in accordance with the state\u2019s needs. This represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65333,"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-65330","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\/65330"}],"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=65330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}