{"id":308799,"date":"2025-11-23T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308799\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:58:10","slug":"space-race-with-china-drives-antenna-building-boom-in-arctic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308799\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Race With China Drives Antenna-Building Boom in Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Satellite operators are looking north. Way north. As the US, China and others compete in space, the need for fast and frequent communication links with satellites orbiting near the North Pole is making Arctic ground stations a hot commodity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">That\u2019s turned Deadhorse, Alaska, into an unlikely outpost in the space race. The community on the North Slope tundra, about 850 miles north of Anchorage by road, is the gateway to the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Virtually everything there exists to support the extraction of fossil fuels. There\u2019s no hospital, bank or school, but there are prefab dorms for workers and a general store selling bear spray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Satellite operators are looking north. Way north. As the US, China and others compete in space, the need&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[19472,3292,28,103,11637,144,102,7264,6803,159729,79,193,157598],"class_list":["post-308799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-air-force","tag-alaska","tag-business","tag-canada","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-china","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-infrastructure","tag-norway","tag-rbc-signals-llc","tag-science","tag-space","tag-swedish-space-corp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}