{"id":79124,"date":"2013-12-12T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/joint-french-italian-military-satellite-arrived-at-launch-base-in-french-guiana\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T01:58:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T17:58:20","slug":"joint-french-italian-military-satellite-arrived-at-launch-base-in-french-guiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/joint-french-italian-military-satellite-arrived-at-launch-base-in-french-guiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint French-Italian Military Satellite Arrived at Launch Base in French Guiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-11-13] The <b>Athena-Fidus <\/b>broadband telecommunications satellite, a joint French-Italian program, arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Dec. 9. <b>Arianespace<\/b> will carry out the launch using an Ariane 5 ECA launcher on Jan. 23 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Athena-Fidus program (Access on theatres for European allied forces nations-French Italian dual use satellite) includes a geostationary satellite with EHF and Ka-band transponders and the ground control segment, based in a French military site. The satellite deploys civil telecom standards DVB-RCS and DVB-S2. It will primarily provide data transmission services to the French and Italian defense ministries, as well as to these countries\u2019 security organizations, which include civil security, homeland security, police and firefighters.<\/p>\n<p><b>Thales Alenia Space <\/b>is the program\u2019s prime contractor on behalf of the French and Italian space agencies, <b>CNES <\/b>and <b>ASI<\/b>, as well as the French (<b>DGA<\/b>) and Italian (<b>Segredifesa<\/b>) defense ministries, respectively with responsibility for the development, construction, testing and in-orbit delivery of the satellite. <b>Telespazio<\/b> is involved in the ground segment part of this project, contributing to launch matters and the subsequent orbital positioning of the satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-11-13] The Athena-Fidus broadband telecommunications satellite, a joint French-Italian program, arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Dec. 9. Arianespace will carry out the launch using an Ariane 5 ECA launcher on Jan. 23 2013. The Athena-Fidus program (Access on theatres for European allied forces nations-French Italian dual use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79127,"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-79124","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\/79124"}],"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=79124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}