{"id":81489,"date":"2013-02-22T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vietnam-approves-launch-of-third-satellite-on-arianespace-vega\/"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:52:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T14:52:05","slug":"vietnam-approves-launch-of-third-satellite-on-arianespace-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vietnam-approves-launch-of-third-satellite-on-arianespace-vega\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Approves Launch of Third Satellite on Arianespace Vega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-22-13] The Vietnamese Government has approved a plan to launch its first remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1A on <strong>Arianespace\u2019s<\/strong> Vega rocket from the European Guiana Space Center in South America, Vietnamese Deputy Director of Institute of Space Technology Bui Trong Tuyen confirmed Feb. 22.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe VNREDSat-1A satellite will deliver Earth observation, monitoring and analysis of natural resources and environmental management and monitoring of natural disasters throughout the Vietnamese territory for five years,\u201d Tuyen said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;VNREDSat-1A will be Vietnam\u2019s third overall satellite, following Vinasat-1 and Vinasat-2 in 2008 and 2012, respectively. The VNREDSat-1A project began in 2010 and was contracted out to French satellite manufacturer <strong>Astrium<\/strong>, which has been training 15 Vietnamese engineers to operate the 120 kg spacecraft.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Tuyen said the Vietnamese government has invested more than $70 million in the VNREDSat-1A satellite project, backed by loans from the French government.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-22-13] The Vietnamese Government has approved a plan to launch its first remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1A on Arianespace\u2019s Vega rocket from the European Guiana Space Center in South America, Vietnamese Deputy Director of Institute of Space Technology Bui Trong Tuyen confirmed Feb. 22.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe VNREDSat-1A satellite will deliver Earth observation, monitoring and analysis of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81489"}],"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=81489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}