{"id":78812,"date":"2025-10-14T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78812\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:42:11","slug":"in-japan-and-beyond-space-startups-are-relying-more-on-government-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78812\/","title":{"rendered":"In Japan and beyond, space startups are relying more on government cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20251014 Geely\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Geespace, owned by Chinese automaker Geely, is seen as China&#8217;s answer to Starlink. The company has partnered with a mobile phone maker and an automaker for direct-to-satellite connectivity as it seeks non-government sources of revenue. \u00a9 Zhejiang Geely Holding Group<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/technology\/tech-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tech Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">Private money takes a step back as profits and exit opportunities underwhelm<\/p>\n<p>MITSURU OBE<\/p>\n<p>October 15, 2025 04:45 JST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geespace, owned by Chinese automaker Geely, is seen as China&#8217;s answer to Starlink. The company has partnered with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[192,27245,6932,266,1759,130,111,139,69,29240,147,392,1046],"class_list":["post-78812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-are","tag-beyond","tag-cash","tag-government","tag-japan","tag-more","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-relying","tag-science","tag-space","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}