{"id":25889,"date":"2025-08-27T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:15:09","slug":"xtar-eyes-u-s-defense-market-expansion-with-next-gen-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/25889\/","title":{"rendered":"XTAR eyes U.S. defense market expansion with next-gen satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 XTAR, a satellite operator specializing in military communications, is preparing for a fleet transition that could expand its role in the U.S. and allied defense markets. The Virginia-based company is shifting from its two legacy X-band satellites to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/airbus-inks-two-satellite-deal-with-spains-satellite-operator-hisdesat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">next-generation spacecraft<\/a> funded by its minority shareholder, Spain\u2019s Hisdesat Servicios Estrat\u00e9gicos.<\/p>\n<p>To continue reading this article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Register now and get<br \/><strong>3 free articles every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You\u2019ll also receive our weekly <strong>SpaceNews This Week<\/strong> newsletter every Friday. 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She has covered the military, the Pentagon, Congress and the defense industry for nearly two decades as editor of NDIA\u2019s National Defense&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/author\/sandra-erwin\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Sandra Erwin\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 XTAR, a satellite operator specializing in military communications, is preparing for a fleet transition that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,19,17,17588,133,3977,451,21329,21330],"class_list":{"0":"post-25889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-satcom","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-sn","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spainsat-ng","16":"tag-xtar"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}