{"id":87723,"date":"2009-12-29T21:32:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bolivia-expects-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-march\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:45:51","slug":"bolivia-expects-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bolivia-expects-to-launch-its-first-satellite-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolivia Expects to Launch Its First Satellite in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-29-09] Bolivia expects to construct and launch Tupac Katari, the country\u2019s first telecommunication satellite and cooperative project with China, within three years, the Bolivian government announced Dec. 22.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bolivia said that negotiations between the two potential partners, which were being facilitated by <strong>Chinese Great Wall Industrial Corp<\/strong>., have been successful and that a deal is likely to be reached soon.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe may be able to sign the contract making the satellite construction viable on March 31, according to schedule,\u201d Bolivian Deputy Telecommunication Minister Roy Mendez said in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mendez said the $300 million project would be funded by secured credit from a Chinese bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-29-09] Bolivia expects to construct and launch Tupac Katari, the country\u2019s first telecommunication satellite and cooperative project with China, within three years, the Bolivian government announced Dec. 22. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bolivia said that negotiations between the two potential partners, which were being facilitated by Chinese Great Wall Industrial Corp., have been successful and that a deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-87723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87723"}],"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=87723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87911,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87723\/revisions\/87911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}