{"id":493207,"date":"2026-03-24T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493207\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:22:07","slug":"space-firm-proposes-85m-durham-satellite-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493207\/","title":{"rendered":"Space firm proposes \u00a385m Durham satellite factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An aerospace company has proposed building an \u00a385m satellite factory if it is backed by the government. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lockheed Martin and Durham County Council want to build the facility at science hub NETPark in Sedgefield, County Durham. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The firm&#8217;s international vice president, Rod Drury, said the factory could create at least 500 jobs in north-east England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The government is expected to decide whether to back the move this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An aerospace company has proposed building an \u00a385m satellite factory if it is backed by the government. Lockheed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}