{"id":120597,"date":"2021-03-16T03:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/satellites-are-stranded-on-the-iss-because-of-a-military-coup"},"modified":"2021-03-16T03:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T10:22:37","slug":"satellites-are-stranded-on-the-iss-because-of-a-military-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/satellites-are-stranded-on-the-iss-because-of-a-military-coup","title":{"rendered":"Satellites Are Stranded on the ISS Because of a Military Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/satellites-are-stranded-on-the-iss-because-of-a-military-coup2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s space agency wants to keep the satellite\u2019s cameras out of military hands.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An unusual geopolitical situation is brewing aboard the International Space Station. Prior to the military coup in Myanmar earlier this year, Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientist-speechless-opening-hayabusa-2-asteroid-samples\" class=\"\" >space agency JAXA<\/a> had been collaborating with the country to build microsatellites that it planned to deploy in partnership with Myanmar\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Now, JAXA has no idea what to do with the pair of 50-kilogram satellites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/japan-is-holding-microsatellites-built-with-myanmar-aboard-the-iss-15663628\/\" class=\"\" >according to <em>SlashGear<\/em><\/a>. And while Japanese scientists hope to bring the agriculture and fishery-monitoring satellites to life, they\u2019re currently holding them on the ISS instead of deploying them out of fear they might be misused for military purposes \u2014 a striking example of real-world geopolitics spilling over into space.<\/p>\n<p>After the military coup in Myanmar, Teppei Kasai, the Asia program director for the group Human Rights Watch noted that it would be relatively straightforward to use the satellites\u2019 Earth-facing cameras for military or surveillance purposes, according to <em>SlashGear<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s space agency wants to keep the satellite\u2019s cameras out of military hands. An unusual geopolitical situation is brewing aboard the International Space Station. Prior to the military coup in Myanmar earlier this year, Japan\u2019s space agency JAXA had been collaborating with the country to build microsatellites that it planned to deploy in partnership with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1490,9,2028,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-government","category-military","category-satellites","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120597","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}