{"id":67004,"date":"2017-10-24T00:28:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/myanmar-plans-to-launch-its-own-satellite-by-2019\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T00:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:28:53","slug":"myanmar-plans-to-launch-its-own-satellite-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/myanmar-plans-to-launch-its-own-satellite-by-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Plans to Launch Its Own Satellite by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Government officials in Myanmar intend to launch a new satellite, MyanmarSat 2, in June 2019, <em>The Global New Light of Myanmar<\/em> reported on Oct. 21. The country\u2019s government will pay approximately $155.7 million over 10 installments for the satellite.<\/p>\n<p>MyanmarSat 2 will carry six C-band and six Ku-band transponders, and will be jointly owned with an undisclosed partner while MyanmarSat 1 completes its existing lease agreement. According to Vice President U Myint Swe, Myanmar intends to pursue three avenues to establish a state-owned satellite system: leasing satellite transponders from foreign countries (a condosat), joint ownership, and total ownership.<\/p>\n<p>Swe, however, is urging government ministries currently using MyanmarSat 1 to switch over to MyanmarSat 2 after their contracts with foreign firms expire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government officials in Myanmar intend to launch a new satellite, MyanmarSat 2, in June 2019, The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Oct. 21. The country\u2019s government will pay approximately $155.7 million over 10 installments for the satellite. MyanmarSat 2 will carry six C-band and six Ku-band transponders, and will be jointly owned with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67007,"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-67004","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\/67004"}],"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=67004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}