{"id":81889,"date":"2012-12-11T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T12:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mda-hires-iai-to-supply-communications-payload-solution-for-amos-6\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T20:09:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T12:09:35","slug":"mda-hires-iai-to-supply-communications-payload-solution-for-amos-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mda-hires-iai-to-supply-communications-payload-solution-for-amos-6\/","title":{"rendered":"MDA Hires IAI to Supply Communications Payload Solution for Amos-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 12-11-12] <strong>MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA)<\/strong> has signed an over $100 million contract with<strong> Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)<\/strong> to supply the communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite, the information solutions provider announced Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\tMDA announced it had started work on this contract under an authorization to proceed in June 2012.<br \/>\nAmos-6 is scheduled to be launched in 2015 and aims to enhance the capacity of the existing Amos satellite constellation, which is owned and operated by Israeli satellite communications service provider <strong>Spacecom<\/strong>. &nbsp;The constellation provides a large range of fixed and mobile communication services in the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa.<br \/>\n\tThe two companies also collaborated in January 2008 when Canada leased MDA tactical UAVs along with IAI\u2019s Heron aircraft for its own Afghanistan mission.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 12-11-12] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed an over $100 million contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to supply the communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite, the information solutions provider announced Dec. 11. MDA announced it had started work on this contract under an authorization to proceed in June 2012. Amos-6 [&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-81889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81889"}],"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=81889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}