{"id":84822,"date":"2011-05-19T20:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-wins-40-million-thales-alenia-space-deal\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T12:41:04","slug":"viasat-wins-40-million-thales-alenia-space-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-wins-40-million-thales-alenia-space-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"ViaSat Wins $40 Million Thales Alenia Space Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-19-11] <b>ViaSat<\/b> has won a new contract worth $40 million from <b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b>, the company announced May 17. ViaSat will supply Ka-band transmit-receive (T\/R) modules to Thales Alenia Space for the <b>Iridium<\/b> NEXT satellite constellation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thales Alenia Space is building the next set of 66 Iridium LEO satellites, and plans to integrate the T\/R modules to build cross links between satellites and feeder links to earth terminals to facilitate point-to-point routing of data over the network.<br \/>\nIridium NEXT is scheduled to begin launching in 2015. The new network will maintain the Iridium constellation architecture of 66 cross-linked LEO satellites covering 100 percent of the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-19-11] ViaSat has won a new contract worth $40 million from Thales Alenia Space, the company announced May 17. ViaSat will supply Ka-band transmit-receive (T\/R) modules to Thales Alenia Space for the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thales Alenia Space is building the next set of 66 Iridium LEO satellites, and plans to integrate 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-84822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822"}],"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=84822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}