{"id":9239,"date":"2019-09-11T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T10:27:16","slug":"fire-forces-japan-to-cancel-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9239","title":{"rendered":"Fire forces Japan to cancel Rocket Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>apan on Wednesday cancelled the launch of a rocket carrying unmanned spacecraft bound for the International Space Station, as a fire broke out at a launch pad in the country\u2019s southwest, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. was sending Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency&#8217;s vessel Kounotori8 using H-2B rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire was burning at around 3:05 a.m. [6:05 PM Tuesday GMT] at the foot of the launch pad, apparently near a vent designed to allow engine exhaust and flames to escape as the rocket takes off,\u201d Mitsubishi said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was extinguished around noon, according to Japanese time.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report, if the fire did not do much damage to the launch pad, the next launch would likely be this weekend at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>It added that delay in sending supplies won\u2019t affect astronauts as the space station has sufficient food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>apan on Wednesday cancelled the launch of a rocket carrying unmanned spacecraft bound for the International Space Station, as a fire broke out at a launch pad in the country\u2019s southwest, local media reported. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. was sending Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency&#8217;s vessel Kounotori8 using H-2B rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1461,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9239\/revisions\/9241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}