{"id":87338,"date":"2010-03-12T00:44:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sspi-timeline-2001-ses-global\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T00:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:44:54","slug":"sspi-timeline-2001-ses-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sspi-timeline-2001-ses-global\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPI Timeline: 2001 \u2013 SES Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 28, 2001: SES Global announced the acquisition of GE Americom from General Electric for US$5 billion in cash and stock, granting General Electric a 25% stake in SES Global in the process. In the same transaction, SES Global acquired 100% of SES Astra, Europe\u2019s leading DTH company, in order to create a global fleet of 28 satellites plus partnership and investment investors in 13 others serving Asia and Latin America<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view this event in the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline<\/p>\n<p>Visit the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline to tour the decades of the Satellite Era<\/p>\n<p>The SSPI Satellite Timeline is the first interactive site on the Web to chronicle the rich and diverse history of the commercial satellite industry. Launched in October 2007 \u2013 the 50th anniversary of Sputnik \u2013 the Timeline is a learning tool for satellite professionals, students, the news media and the innovative companies that make up the industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 28, 2001: SES Global announced the acquisition of GE Americom from General Electric for US$5 billion in cash and stock, granting General Electric a 25% stake in SES Global in the process. In the same transaction, SES Global acquired 100% of SES Astra, Europe\u2019s leading DTH company, in order to create a global fleet [&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-87338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87338"}],"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=87338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}