{"id":61747,"date":"2019-08-27T00:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/report-boris-johnson-pushed-for-space-innovation-fund\/"},"modified":"2019-08-27T00:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:07:27","slug":"report-boris-johnson-pushed-for-space-innovation-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/report-boris-johnson-pushed-for-space-innovation-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Boris Johnson Pushed for Space Innovation Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The UK space industry is calling on the government to commit 150 million British pounds a year to an innovation fund as part of a national program that would recognize the sector\u2019s importance. Graham Peters, chair of <strong>UKSpace<\/strong>, the trade body that represents satellite operators and manufacturers such as <strong>Airbus, Inmarsat<\/strong> and US defense group <strong>Lockheed Martin<\/strong>, said a national space innovation fund was urgently needed to help commercialize research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need Boris Johnson to put his money where his mouth is,\u201d said Mr Peters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at Financial Times\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK space industry is calling on the government to commit 150 million British pounds a year to an innovation fund as part of a national program that would recognize the sector\u2019s importance. Graham Peters, chair of UKSpace, the trade body that represents satellite operators and manufacturers such as Airbus, Inmarsat and US defense group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}