{"id":108841,"date":"2017-07-30T21:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108841"},"modified":"2017-07-30T21:17:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:17:32","slug":"next-launch-of-first-japanese-private-space-rocket-set-for-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/30\/next-launch-of-first-japanese-private-space-rocket-set-for-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Next launch of first Japanese private space rocket set for year-end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">TOKYO, July 31 &#8212; The Japanese Interstellar Technologies Inc. company will make a new attempt to launch the nation&#8217;s first privately developed rocket before the end of 2017, Takahiro Inagawa, the company&#8217;s CEO, said Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">Earlier in the day, the Interstellar Technologies Inc. launched the rocket called &#8220;Momo&#8221; from a launching pad in the country&#8217;s Hokkaido island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">The rocket was the first one to be launched not by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), but by a private company. However, the launch was aborted a minute after due to technical reasons and the rocket fell into the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">&#8220;Before the contact has been lost, we have succeeded to obtain the information about the flight, that&#8217;s why we are very satisfied with the result. We will analyze all the weak points and fix them and will try to carry out a new launch before the end of the year,&#8221; Inagawa said, as quoted by the Kyodo news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;text-align: start;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';color: black\">The first launch of the &#8220;Momo&#8221; rocket has been repeatedly suspended due to either bad weather or technical conditions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;margin: 15.0pt 0in 15.0pt 0in\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, July 31 &#8212; The Japanese Interstellar Technologies Inc. company will make a new attempt to launch the nation&#8217;s first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5,17],"tags":[667,20008],"class_list":["post-108841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-technology","category-news-w","tag-japan","tag-private-space-rocket","mauthors-sputnik","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}