{"id":81747,"date":"2013-01-05T01:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-vega-selected-to-launch-vietnamese-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-01-05T01:01:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T17:01:46","slug":"arianespace-vega-selected-to-launch-vietnamese-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-vega-selected-to-launch-vietnamese-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Vega Selected to Launch Vietnamese Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-04-13] <b>Arianespace<\/b> and <b>Astrium<\/b> have signed a launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the <b>Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology<\/b>, the companies announced Jan. 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Arianespace will launch VNREDSat-1A in the second quarter of 2013 on the company\u2019s second Vega launcher, Verta 1, from the Guiana Space Center for the European Space Agency (ESA). VNREDSat-1A will then be injected into sun-synchronous orbit (SSO).<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;VNREDSat-1A represents Arianespace\u2019s first contract of 2013. The 120-kg Astrium-built satellite aims to supply Vietnam with a complete satellite system and ground receiving facilities.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe are especially proud of once again being able to work with Vietnam, following the successful launches of Vinasat-1 and -2 communications satellites,\u201d Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall said in a statement. \u201cWith this contract, the fourth we signed for Vega, Arianespace clearly shows that it can offer customers a launch service perfectly adapted to this type of mission.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-04-13] Arianespace and Astrium have signed a launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, the companies announced Jan. 4. &nbsp; &nbsp;Arianespace will launch VNREDSat-1A in the second quarter of 2013 on the company\u2019s second Vega launcher, Verta 1, from the Guiana Space Center for [&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-81747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747"}],"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=81747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}