{"id":106721,"date":"2020-05-07T17:02:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/amazon-reportedly-registers-interest-in-bankrupt-onewebs-broadband-satellite-constellation-assets"},"modified":"2020-05-07T17:02:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T00:02:32","slug":"amazon-reportedly-registers-interest-in-bankrupt-onewebs-broadband-satellite-constellation-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/amazon-reportedly-registers-interest-in-bankrupt-onewebs-broadband-satellite-constellation-assets","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reportedly registers interest in bankrupt OneWeb\u2019s broadband satellite constellation assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YIrIt0R47Z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Amazon is among the players in a bankruptcy bidding game with the assets of the OneWeb satellite venture at stake, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/oneweb-bidders-include-2-from-china-eutelsat-with-france-other-eu-nations-spacex-amazon-cerberus\/\">according to Space Intel Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting unnamed industry officials, Space Intel Report\u2019s Peter B. de Selding says other potential bidders include two Chinese organizations that are apparently acting on behalf of the Chinese government; the Paris-based satellite operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eutelsat.com\/en\/home.html\">Eutelsat<\/a>, which apparently has the backing of the French government and several other European Union member states; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cerberus.com\/\">Cerberus Capital Management<\/a>, a New York-based private equity firm with interesting connections.<\/p>\n<p>Space Intel Report also quotes the officials as saying that SpaceX was among those expressing interest, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk denied that was the case. \u201cNot SpaceX,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1258304688828452865\">Musk wrote in a tweet.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is among the players in a bankruptcy bidding game with the assets of the OneWeb satellite venture at stake, according to Space Intel Report. Quoting unnamed industry officials, Space Intel Report\u2019s Peter B. de Selding says other potential bidders include two Chinese organizations that are apparently acting on behalf of the Chinese government; the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}