{"id":106913,"date":"2020-05-11T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/russian-rocket-disintegrates-in-space-leaving-orbital-debris"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:03:44","slug":"russian-rocket-disintegrates-in-space-leaving-orbital-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/russian-rocket-disintegrates-in-space-leaving-orbital-debris","title":{"rendered":"Russian Rocket Disintegrates in Space, Leaving Orbital Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-rocket-disintegrates-in-space-leaving-orbital-debris.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/science\/1154925\">announced<\/a> on Sunday that the tanks of a rocket that launched a scientific satellite back in 2011 have disintegrated in Earth\u2019s orbit above the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The 18th Space Control Squadron of the US Air Force said on Saturday that it is now tracking 65 separate pieces associated with the rocket\u2019s upper stage. \u201cNo indication caused by collision,\u201d the squadron wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/18SPCS\/status\/1259200117296386055\">May 9 tweet<\/a> confirming the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrently we are working to collect data to confirm the quantity and orbit parameters of the fragments,\u201d Russia\u2019s space agency said in a statement, as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-05-russian-rocket-earth-orbit-space.html\">quoted by <em>Agence France-Presse<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s space agency Roscosmos announced on Sunday that the tanks of a rocket that launched a scientific satellite back in 2011 have disintegrated in Earth\u2019s orbit above the Indian Ocean. The 18th Space Control Squadron of the US Air Force said on Saturday that it is now tracking 65 separate pieces associated with the rocket\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106913","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}