{"id":394279,"date":"2017-10-26T11:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=133de26ef7e0191580226f80d3026c77"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:59:29","slug":"saudi-fund-agrees-plan-to-invest-in-virgin-space-ventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=394279","title":{"rendered":"Saudi fund agrees plan to invest in Virgin space ventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund plans to invest about $1 billion in Richard Branson&#8217;s space company, Virgin Galactic,  and sister companies The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit, according to a joint statement published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IAIiavcQtHc:HCBkaaHR-HU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IAIiavcQtHc:HCBkaaHR-HU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=IAIiavcQtHc:HCBkaaHR-HU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=IAIiavcQtHc:HCBkaaHR-HU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=IAIiavcQtHc:HCBkaaHR-HU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/IAIiavcQtHc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH (Reuters) &#8211; Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund plans to invest about $1 billion in Richard Branson&#8217;s space company, Virgin Galactic,  and sister companies The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit, according to a joint statement published on Thu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394280,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394279\/revisions\/394280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}