{"id":84453,"date":"2011-08-01T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vietnam-selects-belgiums-spacebel-to-build-second-monitoring-satellite\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:29:23","slug":"vietnam-selects-belgiums-spacebel-to-build-second-monitoring-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vietnam-selects-belgiums-spacebel-to-build-second-monitoring-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Selects Belgium\u2019s Spacebel to Build Second Monitoring Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[08-01-11] The Vietnamese government has authorized the construction of its second Earth observation microsatellite VnRedSat-1B and has selected Belgian space systems company <b>Spacebel<\/b> as its prime contractor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Government officials confirmed July 29 that it concluded negotiations with Spacebel and that the contract will be presented and signed in March 2012. Spacebel will lead a consortium of Belgian subcontractors to build and deliver VnRedSat-1B in time for a planned launch in 2016.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VnRedSat-1B will be combined Vietnam\u2019s first remote sensing microsatellite VnRedSat-1A to provide monitoring of the environment in South-East Asia. The VnRedSat-1A multi-spectral is currently under construction by <b>EADS Astrium<\/b>, for a planned launch in 2013 or 2014.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[08-01-11] The Vietnamese government has authorized the construction of its second Earth observation microsatellite VnRedSat-1B and has selected Belgian space systems company Spacebel as its prime contractor. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Government officials confirmed July 29 that it concluded negotiations with Spacebel and that the contract will be presented and signed in March 2012. Spacebel will lead 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-84453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453"}],"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=84453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}