{"id":62301,"date":"2019-06-06T23:39:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/virgin-orbit-brings-launcherone-service-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T23:39:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:39:08","slug":"virgin-orbit-brings-launcherone-service-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/virgin-orbit-brings-launcherone-service-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Orbit Brings LauncherOne Service to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Virgin Orbit<\/strong> signed an agreement with <strong>ANA Holdings<\/strong> (ANA HD), parent company of <strong>All Nippon Airways<\/strong> (ANA), Japan\u2019s largest airline, to bring the company\u2019s LauncherOne service to Japan. Subject to U.S. government regulatory approvals, Virgin Orbit\u2019s system \u2014 which uses a 747 widebody jet as a \u201cflying launch pad\u201d for its rocket \u2014 will complement existing Japanese ground launch vehicles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) charts out a long-term partnership between ANA HD and Virgin Orbit, aiming to further strengthen ties between the U.S. and Japan for cooperative, peaceful space activities. Under the terms of the agreement, ANA, which maintains the largest airline fleet in Japan, will evaluate the capabilities to provide aircraft and ground support equipment maintenance and potentially additional aircraft to support Virgin Orbit\u2019s local launch operations, as well as logistics and transport services for Virgin Orbit\u2019s broader launch operations across Asia. ANA HD and Virgin Orbit will also partner with Space Port Japan to select and stand-up an ideal launch site to host LauncherOne operations in Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJapan has long been a global source of innovation and a leader in space, and with the small satellite market growing so impressively, we are seeing countless new satellite applications and businesses emerge in the region. With this new partnership, we\u2019re excited to bring LauncherOne\u2019s unique responsiveness and flexibility to Asia for the first time,\u201d said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart, \u201cANA has the respect and trust of customers around the world \u2014 and we look forward to working closely with them to stimulate the small satellite market in Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Orbit signed an agreement with ANA Holdings (ANA HD), parent company of All Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan\u2019s largest airline, to bring the company\u2019s LauncherOne service to Japan. Subject to U.S. government regulatory approvals, Virgin Orbit\u2019s system \u2014 which uses a 747 widebody jet as a \u201cflying launch pad\u201d for its rocket \u2014 will complement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57670,"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-62301","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\/62301"}],"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=62301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}