{"id":83666,"date":"2018-10-17T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T16:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:15:12","slug":"swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch","title":{"rendered":"Swedish firm buys Falcon Heavy launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A Swedish company with plans for a geostationary communications satellite announced Oct. 16 a contract with SpaceX for a Falcon Heavy launch no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Ovzon of Solna, Sweden, has not yet purchased the satellite, but paid Eutelsat $1.6 million earlier this year to move one of its satellites to an unspecified Ovzon orbital slot to preserve spectrum rights at that location.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Ovzon CEO Per Wahlberg said procurement of the company\u2019s first satellite is \u201cin the final stage,\u201d and that production of an advanced onboard processor started earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch\/\">https:\/\/spacenews.com\/swedish-firm-buys-falcon-heavy-launch\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A Swedish company with plans for a geostationary communications satellite announced Oct. 16 a contract with SpaceX for a Falcon Heavy launch no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2020. Ovzon of Solna, Sweden, has not yet purchased the satellite, but paid Eutelsat $1.6 million earlier this year to move one of its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666","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=83666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83676,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83666\/revisions\/83676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}