{"id":124712,"date":"2021-07-08T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/repurposed-communications-satellites-could-help-save-humanity-from-an-asteroid-impact"},"modified":"2021-07-08T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T00:22:51","slug":"repurposed-communications-satellites-could-help-save-humanity-from-an-asteroid-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/repurposed-communications-satellites-could-help-save-humanity-from-an-asteroid-impact","title":{"rendered":"Repurposed communications satellites could help save humanity from an asteroid impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/repurposed-communications-satellites-could-help-save-humanity-from-an-asteroid-impact2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you do if you discover a big rock on a collision course with Earth and have very little time to take action?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Large telecommunication satellites used for TV broadcasting could be quickly and easily repurposed as anti-asteroid weapons according to European aerospace company Airbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you do if you discover a big rock on a collision course with Earth and have very little time to take action? Large telecommunication satellites used for TV broadcasting could be quickly and easily repurposed as anti-asteroid weapons according to European aerospace company Airbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124712","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=124712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}