{"id":87780,"date":"2009-12-14T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/iostar-using-ku-band-telestar-18-to-support-natos-afghanistan-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:46:41","slug":"iostar-using-ku-band-telestar-18-to-support-natos-afghanistan-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/iostar-using-ku-band-telestar-18-to-support-natos-afghanistan-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"IoStar Using Ku-band Telestar 18 to Support NATO\u2019s Afghanistan Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-14-09] <strong>IoStar International Ltd.<\/strong> of Hong Kong is now using more than a full Ku-band transponder on <strong>Telesat<\/strong>\u2019s Telstar 18 satellite to serve the communications needs of NATO troops in Afghanistan, Telesat announced Dec. 11.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IoStar, a provider of Ku-band satellite broadband to commercial and government customers in Asia, said that demand for its services in Afghanistan is surging and that Telesat was best equipped to handle the demand.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cAfghanistan is within the western edge of Telstar 18\u2019s coverage resulting in a look angle that enables Telesat to offer customers a very attractive service solution,\u201d Nigel Gibson, Telesat\u2019s vice president of international sales, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-14-09] IoStar International Ltd. of Hong Kong is now using more than a full Ku-band transponder on Telesat\u2019s Telstar 18 satellite to serve the communications needs of NATO troops in Afghanistan, Telesat announced Dec. 11. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IoStar, a provider of Ku-band satellite broadband to commercial and government customers in Asia, said that demand for its [&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-87780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87780"}],"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=87780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87963,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87780\/revisions\/87963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}