{"id":88233,"date":"2009-10-28T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-thales-confirm-iridium-next-partnership\/"},"modified":"2009-10-28T01:28:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T17:28:03","slug":"ball-aerospace-thales-confirm-iridium-next-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-thales-confirm-iridium-next-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace, Thales Confirm Iridium Next Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[10-27-09] <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> selected <strong>Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp.<\/strong> to work jointly on the <strong>Iridium Next<\/strong> satellite constellation program, Ball Aerospace announced Oct. 26. <br \/>\nBall Aerospace\u2019s responsibilities may include assembly, integration and test for the Iridium satellites. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While more specific details of the partnership have yet to be announced, Ball Aerospace said it would process as many as four spacecraft at a time at its Boulder, Co., satellite production facility and advise Thales Alenia Space on possible hosted secondary payload opportunities to serve the needs of a variety of defense and civil missions.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ball Aerospace is \u201cthe last link in the value chain to Iridium and will provide both the quality and dedication required to build this challenging [Iridium Next] constellation,&#8221; Thales Executive Vice President Emmanuel Grave said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Ball Aerospace Completes STPSat-2 Review<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 14, 2009<br \/>\n[10-14-09] Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp. has completed a pre-shipment review for STPSat-2, the first spacecraft for the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Standard\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n<b class=\"titlelink\">Iridium, GHL Close Merger Transaction<\/b> \t\t \t\t\t&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tOctober 1, 2009<br \/>\n[10-01-09] Iridium Holdings and GHL Acquisition Corp. have closed their merger transaction, Iridium announced Sept. 30. As a result of the merge, GHL Acquisition s new name will be Iridium Communications Inc. and will trade on\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">New Era Dawns for Mobile Satellite Services<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tVia Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tMay 1, 2009<br \/>\nAs technological advances in space and on Earth lead to a new generation of handheld receivers, the prospect of mobile satellite services (MSS) breaking into the consumer mass market with a host of innovative services grows stronger. In the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[10-27-09] Thales Alenia Space selected Ball Aerospace &amp; Technologies Corp. to work jointly on the Iridium Next satellite constellation program, Ball Aerospace announced Oct. 26. Ball Aerospace\u2019s responsibilities may include assembly, integration and test for the Iridium satellites. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; While more specific details of the partnership have yet to be announced, Ball Aerospace said it [&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-88233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233"}],"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=88233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}