{"id":300757,"date":"2025-12-05T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300757\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:58:21","slug":"uk-invested-in-orbex-in-january-ditched-it-in-november-will-decide-where-to-put-131m-in-unallocated-esa-launcher-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/300757\/","title":{"rendered":"UK invested in Orbex in January, ditched it in November &#038; will decide where to put $131M in unallocated ESA launcher funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">TUPPER LAKE, NY \u2014 The European Space Agency (ESA) European Launcher Challenge proved remarkably popular among subscribing ESA governments during the agency\u2019s Nov. 26-27 ministerial conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The agency had selected five startup launch service providers and had set a funding target of up to 169 million euros ($197 million) per launcher, for a total of 845 million euros. In the event, when the final counting was completed on Dec. 1 the ELV program had secured 902.16 million euros \u2014 $1.05 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The funding . . .<\/p>\n<p>To view the entire article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceintelreport.com\/subscribe-to-space-intel-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">become a subscriber<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUPPER LAKE, NY \u2014 The European Space Agency (ESA) European Launcher Challenge proved remarkably popular among subscribing ESA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[120891,120892,120893,47509,120894,120895,120896,120897,120898,90,416,56,120899,54,55],"class_list":["post-300757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-andoya-spaceport","tag-euroopean-launcher-challenge-elc","tag-europoean-space-agency-esa","tag-isar-aerospace","tag-maia-space","tag-orbex-space","tag-pld-space","tag-rocket-factory-augsburg-rfa","tag-saxavord-spaceport-uk","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-uk-parliament-scottish-affairs-committee","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}