{"id":123245,"date":"2021-05-31T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/space-debris-has-hit-and-damaged-the-international-space-station"},"modified":"2021-05-31T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:22:39","slug":"space-debris-has-hit-and-damaged-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/space-debris-has-hit-and-damaged-the-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Space Debris Has Hit And Damaged The International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-debris-has-hit-and-damaged-the-international-space-station2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inevitable has occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit and damaged part of the International Space Station \u2014 namely, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/iss\/canadarm2\/default.asp\">Canadarm2<\/a> robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument is still operational, but the object punctured the thermal blanket and damaged the boom beneath. It\u2019s a sobering reminder that the low-Earth orbit\u2019s space junk problem is a ticking time bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously space agencies around the world are aware of the space debris problem. Over 23000 pieces are being tracked in low-Earth orbit to help satellites and the ISS avoid collisions \u2014 but they\u2019re all about the size of a softball or larger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable has occurred. A piece of space debris too small to be tracked has hit and damaged part of the International Space Station \u2014 namely, the Canadarm2 robotic arm. The instrument is still operational, but the object punctured the thermal blanket and damaged the boom beneath. It\u2019s a sobering reminder that the low-Earth orbit\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123245","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}