{"id":81802,"date":"2012-12-26T21:45:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-satellites-emerge-from-russia\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T21:45:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T13:45:29","slug":"new-satellites-emerge-from-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-satellites-emerge-from-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Satellites Emerge from Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new satellites have emerged from Russia\u2019s manufacturing sector. The nation of Angola\u2019s first satellite \u2013 Angosat \u2013 is now being built by a Russian consortium led by <b>RSC<\/b> and should be launched in three years, Angolan Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology Alcides Safeca confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Safeca, who was speaking at a ceremony to mark the start of construction of Angosat, noted that the RSC consortium was building the satellite based on the Yamal platform design. \u201cThe RSC consortium is a multinational with extensive experience of making satellites and rockets for international programs such as Soyuz-Apollo,\u201d Safeca said.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;A syndicate of Russian banks headed up by <b>Ruseximbank<\/b> and <b>VTB<\/b> is financing the satellite, providing approximately $417 million in financial support.<br \/>\nSeparately, management officials from Russian space and launch vehicle developer <b>Energia<\/b> announced the company was completing construction of a new remote Earth probe satellite. Energia Chief Designer Vitaly Lopota told the Russian Interfax news agency hat the optical part of the satellite is being manufactured jointly with <b>Peleng Belarusian<\/b> and <b>EADS Astrium<\/b>.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;The project was established by a Russian-European joint venture to manufacture communications satellites that was created in 2011.<br \/>\n<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new satellites have emerged from Russia\u2019s manufacturing sector. The nation of Angola\u2019s first satellite \u2013 Angosat \u2013 is now being built by a Russian consortium led by RSC and should be launched in three years, Angolan Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Technology Alcides Safeca confirmed. &nbsp; &nbsp;Safeca, who was speaking at a [&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-81802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81802"}],"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=81802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}