{"id":85544,"date":"2011-01-13T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astrium-reports-modest-growth-in-2010-plans-military-focus-in-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-01-13T19:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:13:17","slug":"astrium-reports-modest-growth-in-2010-plans-military-focus-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astrium-reports-modest-growth-in-2010-plans-military-focus-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrium Reports Modest Growth in 2010; Plans Military Focus in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[01-13-11] <strong>Astrium<\/strong> posted preliminary overall revenues of 5 billion euros ($6.47 billion) in 2010, a 4 percent increase compared to 2009, the company announced Jan. 12. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Astrium received 6 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in orders in 2010, a 43 percent increase compared to 2009. Astrium\u2019s order book now stands at about 16 billion euros ($20.71 billion). Astrium\u2019s 2010 highlights include: a 55.2 million euro ($71.5 million) contract with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology for an Earth observation optical satellite system; a contract from Eutelsat to a build the 48-transponder W5A Ku-band satellite and a deal with SES World Skies to build the SES-6 satellite.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a statement, Astrium CEO Fran\u00e7ois Auque said the company hopes to have a good year in the military market in 2011 as the company targets a key deal in France. \u201cIn services, the orders we received have almost tripled in relation to 2009. We hope that the ongoing tender for a public-private partnership for military telecommunications for the French armed forces will take account of our long experience with both the British and German Defense Ministries.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[01-13-11] Astrium posted preliminary overall revenues of 5 billion euros ($6.47 billion) in 2010, a 4 percent increase compared to 2009, the company announced Jan. 12. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Astrium received 6 billion euros ($7.7 billion) in orders in 2010, a 43 percent increase compared to 2009. Astrium\u2019s order book now stands at about 16 billion euros [&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-85544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85544"}],"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=85544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}