{"id":125117,"date":"2021-07-18T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/astronomers-push-for-global-debate-on-giant-satellite-swarms"},"modified":"2021-07-18T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T02:22:18","slug":"astronomers-push-for-global-debate-on-giant-satellite-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/astronomers-push-for-global-debate-on-giant-satellite-swarms","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-push-for-global-debate-on-giant-satellite-swarms3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, in what would be the biggest international step yet towards addressing these concerns, diplomats at a United Nations forum next month might discuss whether humanity has a right to \u2018dark and quiet skies\u2019. The debate could initiate a framework for how scientists and the public would deal with the flood of new satellites \u2014 with many more expected.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Working with the United Nations, scientists hope to establish standards for satellite \u2018megaconstellations\u2019 and reduce disruption of astronomical observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, in what would be the biggest international step yet towards addressing these concerns, diplomats at a United Nations forum next month might discuss whether humanity has a right to \u2018dark and quiet skies\u2019. The debate could initiate a framework for how scientists and the public would deal with the flood of new satellites \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125117","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}