{"id":82941,"date":"2012-06-15T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/newsat-wins-three-year-30-3-million-jabiru-service-contract\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:29:09","slug":"newsat-wins-three-year-30-3-million-jabiru-service-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/newsat-wins-three-year-30-3-million-jabiru-service-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsat Wins Three-Year, $30.3 Million Jabiru Service Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[06-15-12] Australian operator <b>NewSat<\/b> has inked a $30.3 million contract with an unnamed South Asian reseller to provide three years of Jabiru satellite service in Afghanistan, the company announced June 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;NewSat did not yet release the name of the customer due to, \u201ccommercial and competitive reasons.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;NewSat CEO Adrian Ballintine said the deal increases his company\u2019s total binding pre-launch contracts for Jabiru satellite capacity to $601 million.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cAfghanistan continues to have an insatiable appetite for communications, and our high throughput Ka-band satellite capacity is obviously hitting a sweet spot with our customers in the region,\u201d Ballintine said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;Lockheed Martin is now six months into building the Jabiru-1 satellite, which is scheduled for a 2014 launch with Arianespace.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-15-12] Australian operator NewSat has inked a $30.3 million contract with an unnamed South Asian reseller to provide three years of Jabiru satellite service in Afghanistan, the company announced June 14. &nbsp; &nbsp;NewSat did not yet release the name of the customer due to, \u201ccommercial and competitive reasons.\u201d &nbsp; &nbsp;NewSat CEO Adrian Ballintine said the [&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-82941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941"}],"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=82941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}