{"id":518002,"date":"2026-06-30T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/518002\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:14:08","slug":"japan-to-invest-%c2%a5150-billion-in-rakutens-domestic-satellite-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/518002\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to invest \u00a5150 billion in Rakuten\u2019s domestic satellite project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan plans to invest \u00a5150 billion in Rakuten Mobile in a push to develop a homegrown satellite communication system and reduce reliance on firms such as Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be released over a period of three years to cover costs for procuring the satellites and launching the network, media reports said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications had secured the funds for the project \u2014 known as the Japan Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communications Project (J-LEO) \u2014 in the supplementary budget for fiscal year 2025 and began taking bids from companies willing to take on the job. The bidding process ended late last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan plans to invest \u00a5150 billion in Rakuten Mobile in a push to develop a homegrown satellite communication&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,115094,8298,46,158888,141,145,4688,920],"class_list":["post-518002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-internal-affairs-ministry","tag-investments","tag-israel","tag-rakuten-mobile","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}