{"id":277300,"date":"2019-05-28T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T14:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=68124430aec4201aba5f58e1a5befe2c"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:27","slug":"ethiopia-and-china-moved-ahead-on-a-communication-and-broadcast-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277300","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and China moved ahead on a communication and broadcast satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 SatellitePro ME reported that Ethiopia and China were partnering to build a communication and broadcast satellite as Addis Ababa pushed further into space applications.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-355987\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia and China moved ahead on a communication and broadcast satellite\" \/>\n<p>The deal sat beside Ethiopia\u2019s earlier remote-sensing satellite work with Chinese partners and reflected a wider Belt and Road pattern of aerospace technology transfer.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn readers, satellite programs matter for broadcasting, weather, and national prestige, even when budgets and ground stations remain hard to verify from open wires.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as tech and China\u2013Ethiopia archive, the SatellitePro brief dates one 2019 communications-satellite partnership marker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/ethiopia-china-partner-to-build-communication-and-broadcast-satellite\/\">SatellitePro ME<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia &amp; China partner to build communication and broadcast satellite&nbsp;&nbsp;SatelliteProME.comThe construction of the satellite is expected to use 50% local input, according to the official report of the Ministry of Innovation and Technology of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":355987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Engineer-Sileshi.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754948,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277300\/revisions\/754948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}