{"id":80289,"date":"2018-06-30T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T06:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/rocket-developed"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T15:49:01","slug":"rocket-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/rocket-developed","title":{"rendered":"Rocket developed by Japan startup in flames after liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-developed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO, Japan \u2014 A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company burst into flames seconds after a failed liftoff Saturday in northern Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was launched in Taiki town on Hokkaido, Japan\u2019s northernmost main island. It was supposed to reach as high as 100 kilometers (62 miles) into space.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed that the 10-meter (33-foot) pencil rocket lifted only slightly from its launch pad before dropping to the ground, disappearing in a fireball. Footage on NHK public television showed a charred rocket lying on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1005792\/news-japan-rocket-momo-2-rocket-interstellar-technologies-taiki-hokkaido?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1530408314\">http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1005792\/news-japan-rocket-momo-...1530408314<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO, Japan \u2014 A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company burst into flames seconds after a failed liftoff Saturday in northern Japan. The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was launched in Taiki town on Hokkaido, Japan\u2019s northernmost main island. It was supposed to reach as high as 100 kilometers (62 miles) into space. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80289","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80317,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80289\/revisions\/80317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}