{"id":5145,"date":"2025-08-18T07:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/firefly-aerospace-eyes-japan-rocket-launches-for-asia-market\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T07:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T07:45:13","slug":"firefly-aerospace-eyes-japan-rocket-launches-for-asia-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/firefly-aerospace-eyes-japan-rocket-launches-for-asia-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Aerospace eyes Japan rocket launches for Asia market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Firefly Aerospace is exploring an option to launch its Alpha rocket from Japan as the U.S. rocket maker expands its satellite launch services globally, a Japanese company operating a spaceport in the country&rsquo;s northern Hokkaido said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan could make Japan the second offshore launch site &mdash; and first in Asia &mdash; for Firefly, the Texas-based rival to Elon Musk&rsquo;s market leader SpaceX, which had its Nasdaq debut earlier this month and is preparing for an Alpha launch in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Space Cotan, operator of the Hokkaido Spaceport located about 820 km northeast of Tokyo, said it and Firefly signed a preliminary agreement to study the feasibility of launching the small-lift rocket Alpha from there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Firefly Aerospace eyes Japan rocket launches for Asia market<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefly Aerospace is exploring an option to launch its Alpha rocket from Japan as the U.S. rocket maker expands its satellite launch services globally, a Japanese company operating a spaceport in the country&rsquo;s northern Hokkaido said on Monday. The plan could make Japan the second offshore launch site &mdash; and first in Asia &mdash; for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/firefly-aerospace-eyes-japan-rocket-launches-for-asia-market\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Firefly Aerospace eyes Japan rocket launches for Asia market&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}