{"id":143261,"date":"2021-11-09T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T01:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=143261&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T01:11:39","slug":"ana-and-virgin-orbit-to-launch-satellites-from-oita-airport","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/ana-and-virgin-orbit-to-launch-satellites-from-oita-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"ANA and Virgin Orbit To Launch Satellites From Oita Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANA Holdings Inc. and Virgin Orbit signed an agreement to launch satellites from Oita Airport in Kyushu. The American company\u2019s special aircraft will carry a satellite to about ten kilometers above the ground and then release it while ANA manages ground operations from Oita airport. The two companies aim to launch twenty units over the next ten years. <\/span><b>Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anahd.co.jp\/group\/pr\/202111\/20211105-2.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ANA Holdings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/about-virgin\/latest\/virgin-orbit-announces-agreement-with-ana-holdings\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virgin Orbit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-143257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virgin-ana.jpg?resize=1024%2C569&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virgin-ana.jpg?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virgin-ana.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virgin-ana.jpg?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/virgin-ana.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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The American company\u2019s special aircraft will carry a satellite to about ten kilometers above&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":143257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-143261","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/143261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}