{"id":67211,"date":"2020-03-26T13:12:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67211"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:12:06","slug":"venezuelan-communications-satellite-out-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=67211","title":{"rendered":"Venezuelan communications satellite out of service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inter-05.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inter-05.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CARACAS, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuela\u2019s first communications<br>satellite, launched in 2008, is out of service due to a systems failure, the<br>country\u2019s government said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDue to a failure, the Simon Bolivar satellite is no longer working for<br>communication,\u201d said the science and technology minister in a statement,<br>without giving further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, the US-based news site Space News reported that VeneSat1 \u2014 the satellite\u2019s other name \u2014 \u201chas been stuck for 10 days in an elliptical<br>orbit,\u201d after a \u201cseries of maneuvers left it tumbling in an unusable orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities, the satellite was<br>used to transmit certain television signals, as well as for internet<br>connections and mobile telephone use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was built by China and baptized \u201cSimon Bolivar\u201d in honor of a national<br>Venezuelan hero. It was launched in 2008, while Hugo Chavez was in office<br>(1999-2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela launched a second satellite, the \u201cFrancisco de Miranda,\u201d in<br>September 2012. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARACAS, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Venezuela\u2019s first communicationssatellite, launched in 2008, is out of service due to a systems failure, thecountry\u2019s government said. \u201cDue to a failure, the Simon Bolivar satellite is no longer working forcommunication,\u201d said the science and technology minister in a statement,without giving further details. On Monday, the US-based news site Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}