{"id":126466,"date":"2021-08-19T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-starlink-satellites-responsible-for-over-half-of-close-encounters-in-orbit-scientist-says"},"modified":"2021-08-19T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:23:11","slug":"spacex-starlink-satellites-responsible-for-over-half-of-close-encounters-in-orbit-scientist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/spacex-starlink-satellites-responsible-for-over-half-of-close-encounters-in-orbit-scientist-says","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starlink satellites responsible for over half of close encounters in orbit, scientist says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-starlink-satellites-responsible-for-over-half-of-close-encounters-in-orbit-scientist-says3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week. That\u2019s about 50% of all such incidents. As the constellation grows, that proportion is expected to rise up to 90%, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites are involved in about 1,600 close encounters between two spacecraft in low Earth orbit every week. That\u2019s about 50% of all such incidents. As the constellation grows, that proportion is expected to rise up to 90%, experts say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126466","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}