{"id":80174,"date":"2013-09-05T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/french-government-allocates-funds-for-ariane-5-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T00:29:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:29:29","slug":"french-government-allocates-funds-for-ariane-5-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/french-government-allocates-funds-for-ariane-5-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"French Government Allocates Funds for Ariane 5 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 09-04-13] Following the first meeting of the joint government-industry committee on space, the French Minister of Higher Education and Research announced that the government was allocating 25 million euros ($33 million) to an upgrade of the Ariane 5 launcher, within the scope of <b>France\u2019s Investment Program for the Future (PIA)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade will increase the available volume under the fairing, adding up to 2 meters in payload height for <b>Arianespace<\/b>\u2018s launch customers, without carrying a performance penalty. This upgrade, scheduled for implementation in 2015, is designed to address the current trend in geostationary telecommunications satellites, which are gradually becoming larger as their power and complexity both increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this upgrade, whose cost has been kept to a minimum, Arianespace will be able to keep pace with market requirements and continue to meet our customers\u2019 expectations. There is a tremendous amount at stake for the launcher industry, which counts over 10,000 employees in France and in Europe,\u201d said St\u00e9phane Isra\u00ebl, Arianespace chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 09-04-13] Following the first meeting of the joint government-industry committee on space, the French Minister of Higher Education and Research announced that the government was allocating 25 million euros ($33 million) to an upgrade of the Ariane 5 launcher, within the scope of France\u2019s Investment Program for the Future (PIA). The upgrade will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80175,"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-80174","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\/80174"}],"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=80174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}