{"id":51364,"date":"2025-07-13T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=51364"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:51:03","slug":"israel-launches-communications-satellite-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/israel-launches-communications-satellite-from-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Launches Communications Satellite from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel on Sunday said it had launched a new national communications satellite on board a SpaceX rocket from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Dror 1 satellite was blasted into orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This $200 million &#8216;smartphone in space&#8217; will power Israel&#8217;s strategic and civilian communications for 15 years,&#8221; the ministry wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying video footage showed the reusable, two-stage rocket lift off into the night sky. SpaceX said the launch happened at 1:04 am in Florida (0504 GMT Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>IAI, which called the launch &#8220;a historic leap for Israeli space technology&#8221;, said when it announced the project to develop and build Dror 1 that it was &#8220;the most advanced communication satellite ever built in Israel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2016, an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a test in Florida, destroying Israel&#8217;s Amos-6 communications satellite, which was estimated to have cost between $200 and 300 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel on Sunday said it had launched a new national communications satellite on board a SpaceX rocket from the United States. The Dror 1 satellite was blasted into orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the foreign ministry said. &#8220;This $200 million &#8216;smartphone in space&#8217; will power &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51366,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364\/revisions\/51366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}