{"id":88121,"date":"2009-11-11T23:38:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/norway-to-invest-214-million-in-spanish-satellite\/"},"modified":"2009-11-11T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:38:05","slug":"norway-to-invest-214-million-in-spanish-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/norway-to-invest-214-million-in-spanish-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway to Invest $214 Million in Spanish Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-11-09] Norway has entered into an agreement with Spain to invest in the acquisition of a Spanish satellite that will improve communications with Norwegian defense forces deployed in Afghanistan and Chad as well as naval units on international missions, the <strong>Norwegian Defense Department<\/strong> announced Nov. 10.&nbsp; <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Norwegian government said it plans to put a proposal before the national parliament to contribute 1.2 billion Norwegian kroner ($214 million) to the project by the end of December.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThe joint project will ensure secure and robust broadband communications via satellite until 2027. In order to achieve stable and effective monitoring of Norwegian interests and be able to handle incidents quickly and in a credible way, good communications are a must,\u201d said the Norwegian Defense Department, in a statement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Norwegian government currently leases its satellite capacity from commercial operators.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories-<\/h2>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">ViaSat Wins $3 Million Antenna Systems Order in Norway<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 31, 2009<br \/>\n[08-31-09] ViaSat signed a $3 million contract to provide two antenna systems to Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) in Norway, ViaSat announced Aug. 28. <\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Telenor Selects Hiltron K-Band Antenna System for Norwegian Teleport<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tAugust 28, 2009<br \/>\n[08-28-09] Satellite-link service provider Telenor awarded a contract to Hiltron Communications to supply a 7.6-meter K-band transmit\/receive antenna system with tracking and full reflector de-icing features, Hiltron announced Aug\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Thales Gains Norwegian Defense Contract For New Satellite Comms<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSMD Report&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 19, 2009<br \/>\nNorway gave Thales a contract to deliver a new satellite communications system for the five Norwegian Nansen class frigates. The Norwegian Defence Procurement Division contract will significantly enhance the effectiveness of the Nansen class\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-11-09] Norway has entered into an agreement with Spain to invest in the acquisition of a Spanish satellite that will improve communications with Norwegian defense forces deployed in Afghanistan and Chad as well as naval units on international missions, the Norwegian Defense Department announced Nov. 10.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Norwegian government said it plans to put [&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-88121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88121"}],"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=88121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}