{"id":86973,"date":"2010-05-12T21:43:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/vietnam-returns-to-lockheed-martin-for-vinasat-2-contract\/"},"modified":"2010-05-12T21:43:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:43:32","slug":"vietnam-returns-to-lockheed-martin-for-vinasat-2-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/vietnam-returns-to-lockheed-martin-for-vinasat-2-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Returns to Lockheed Martin for Vinasat-2 Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[05-12-10] <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong> won a contract from the <strong>Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group<\/strong> (VNPT) to build the Vinasat-2 satellite, with delivery due by the second quarter of 2012, Lockheed Martin announced May 12.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vinasat-2 will be based on Lockheed\u2019s A2100 spacecraft platform and feature 24 Ku-band fixed high power communication channels, providing uplink and downlink coverage over Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos from 131.8 degrees East. Lockheed Martin also will secure a launch and perform in-orbit testing. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lockheed Martin delivered Vietnam\u2019s first national satellite Vinasat-1 in 2008 for $300 million dollars, with launch services contracted to <strong>Arianespace<\/strong>. \u201cFrom the shared success of the Vinasat-1 project, I do believe that Lockheed Martin will be able to again meet the schedule requirement and jointly cooperate with VNPT for the successful implementation of the Vinasat-2 Project,\u201d VNPT Board Chairman Pham Long Tran said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Financial details of the contract were not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[05-12-10] Lockheed Martin won a contract from the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) to build the Vinasat-2 satellite, with delivery due by the second quarter of 2012, Lockheed Martin announced May 12. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vinasat-2 will be based on Lockheed\u2019s A2100 spacecraft platform and feature 24 Ku-band fixed high power communication channels, providing uplink and [&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-86973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86973"}],"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=86973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}