{"id":156719,"date":"2023-01-31T23:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/spacex-announces-nigerian-operation-first-in-africa"},"modified":"2023-01-31T23:22:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T05:22:52","slug":"spacex-announces-nigerian-operation-first-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/spacex-announces-nigerian-operation-first-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX announces Nigerian operation, first in Africa"},"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\/v2vJYFf2Dec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a><\/strong>, on Monday announced that it has commenced the operation of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starlink\">Starlink<\/a> <\/strong>services in Nigeria, the first African country to receive such.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX launched in 2019. It provides satellite internet access coverage to about 46 countries, which is also targeting the global mobile phone service after 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarlink is now available in Nigeria \u2013 the first African country to receive service!\u201d a tweet posted on the official page of the satellite firm read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, SpaceX, on Monday announced that it has commenced the operation of Starlink services in Nigeria, the first African country to receive such. Starlink is a satellite internet constellation operated by SpaceX launched in 2019. It provides satellite internet access coverage to about 46 countries, which is also targeting the global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156719","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}