{"id":585482,"date":"2026-05-15T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:56:08","slug":"goonhilly-to-be-sold-to-us-firm-in-37m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585482\/","title":{"rendered":"Goonhilly to be sold to US firm in \u00a337m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Goonhilly has spent years building a world class deep space communications capability,&#8221; said Kenn Herskind from Goonhilly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Joining IM will allow us to scale that capability globally and directly support the next era of lunar exploration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Together, we will be creating a commercial lunar communications network that is interoperable, resilient, and ready to support Artemis and international missions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">IM said its customers &#8220;had been clear that they wanted a single, integrated, and resilient solution for their communications&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Goonhilly will provide the backbone for this network, scales our global ground presence, and will bring a strategic core competency to the Intuitive Machines team,&#8221; said Steve Altemus, CEO of IM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Goonhilly has spent years building a world class deep space communications capability,&#8221; said Kenn Herskind from Goonhilly. &#8220;Joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585482","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\/585482","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=585482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}