{"id":79432,"date":"2013-11-11T20:48:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacecom-secures-financing-for-amos-6-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:48:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T12:48:59","slug":"spacecom-secures-financing-for-amos-6-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacecom-secures-financing-for-amos-6-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecom Secures Financing for Amos 6 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-11-13] Building on the momentum from Amos 5, <b>Spacecom<\/b> has signed agreements with a consortium of banks and the Amos 6 satellite manufacturer for loans totaling just over $293 million to finance the construction, launch, insurance and financing costs related to the Amos 6 satellite. The consortium is led by <b>Export Development Canada (EDC) <\/b>which will loan up to $140 million; <b>Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) <\/b>which will loan up to $106 million and <b>Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) <\/b>with a loan up to $47 million. IAI is responsible for manufacturing and preparing for launch of the satellite whose launch date is scheduled for 2015 to the Amos 4 degrees West \u2018hot spot,\u2019 current home to the Amos 2 and Amos 3.<\/p>\n<p>Amos 6 will be larger and more powerful than both the Amos 2 and Amos 3 satellites. The spacecraft will expand territories under current service by adding Western Europe, and multi-beam coverage over parts of Africa to existing Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Middle East coverage areas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-11-13] Building on the momentum from Amos 5, Spacecom has signed agreements with a consortium of banks and the Amos 6 satellite manufacturer for loans totaling just over $293 million to finance the construction, launch, insurance and financing costs related to the Amos 6 satellite. The consortium is led by Export Development Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79433,"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-79432","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\/79432"}],"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=79432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}