{"id":665861,"date":"2026-06-30T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665861\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:21:09","slug":"japan-to-invest-%c2%a5150-billion-in-rakutens-domestic-satellite-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/665861\/","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":665862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[223049,5353,223048,90,416,412,227,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-665861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-internal-affairs-ministry","tag-investments","tag-rakuten-mobile","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-tech","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665861","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=665861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}