{"id":186725,"date":"2024-04-03T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/alibaba-joins-rocket-firm-with-goal-of-delivering-parcels-anywhere-within-1-hour"},"modified":"2024-04-03T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T03:22:25","slug":"alibaba-joins-rocket-firm-with-goal-of-delivering-parcels-anywhere-within-1-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/alibaba-joins-rocket-firm-with-goal-of-delivering-parcels-anywhere-within-1-hour","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba joins rocket firm with goal of delivering parcels anywhere within 1 hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alibaba-joins-rocket-firm-with-goal-of-delivering-parcels-anywhere-within-1-hour2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is partnering with a domestic rocket developer, with the lofty goal of delivering parcels anywhere in the world within an hour.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, to be co-conducted by Alibaba\u2019s Taobao marketplace and Beijing-based start-up Space Epoch, will take place \u201cin the near future\u201d using a reusable rocket that can land on the sea, according to a Sunday post by Space Epoch on its official WeChat account.<\/p>\n<p>Alibaba, which owns the South China Morning Post, confirmed the information on Monday, saying that \u201cmany great endeavours seem like a joke at first\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding is partnering with a domestic rocket developer, with the lofty goal of delivering parcels anywhere in the world within an hour. The experiment, to be co-conducted by Alibaba\u2019s Taobao marketplace and Beijing-based start-up Space Epoch, will take place \u201cin the near future\u201d using a reusable rocket that can land [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}