{"id":100305,"date":"2019-12-30T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/iridium-would-pay-to-deorbit-its-30-defunct-satellites-for-the-right-price"},"modified":"2019-12-30T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T23:44:54","slug":"iridium-would-pay-to-deorbit-its-30-defunct-satellites-for-the-right-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/iridium-would-pay-to-deorbit-its-30-defunct-satellites-for-the-right-price","title":{"rendered":"Iridium would pay to deorbit its 30 defunct satellites \u2014 for the right price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iridium-would-pay-to-deorbit-its-30-defunct-satellites-for-the-right-price2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Iridium Communications completed disposal of the last of its 65 working legacy satellites Dec. 28, while leaving open the possibility of paying an active-debris-removal company to deorbit 30 that failed in the decades since the operator deployed its first-generation constellation.<\/p>\n<p>McLean, Virginia-based Iridium started deorbiting its first constellation, built by Motorola and Lockheed Martin, in 2017, as it replaced them with second-generation satellites from Thales Alenia Space.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 95 satellites launched between 1997 and 2002, 30 malfunctioned and remain stuck in low Earth orbit, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Iridium Communications completed disposal of the last of its 65 working legacy satellites Dec. 28, while leaving open the possibility of paying an active-debris-removal company to deorbit 30 that failed in the decades since the operator deployed its first-generation constellation. McLean, Virginia-based Iridium started deorbiting its first constellation, built by Motorola and Lockheed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100305","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}