{"id":114501,"date":"2020-10-15T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/two-dead-satellites-may-collide-tonight-thats-really-really-bad"},"modified":"2020-10-16T03:26:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T10:26:31","slug":"two-dead-satellites-may-collide-tonight-thats-really-really-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/two-dead-satellites-may-collide-tonight-thats-really-really-bad","title":{"rendered":"Two Dead Satellites May Collide Tonight. That\u2019s Really, Really Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-dead-satellites-may-collide-tonight-thats-really-really-bad2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experts are worried about what could happen up in low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On Tuesday, LeoLabs, a company that monitors the paths of space junk in low-Earth orbit, announced on Twitter it was tracking a potential conjunction\u2014that\u2019s space-speak for a mid-orbit crash\u2014tonight between a defunct Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are worried about what could happen up in low-Earth orbit. On Tuesday, LeoLabs, a company that monitors the paths of space junk in low-Earth orbit, announced on Twitter it was tracking a potential conjunction\u2014that\u2019s space-speak for a mid-orbit crash\u2014tonight between a defunct Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501","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=114501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114509,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions\/114509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}