{"id":126822,"date":"2021-08-28T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/space-junk-reportedly-smashed-a-chinese-military-satellite"},"modified":"2021-08-28T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T23:02:16","slug":"space-junk-reportedly-smashed-a-chinese-military-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/space-junk-reportedly-smashed-a-chinese-military-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Space Junk Reportedly Smashed a Chinese Military Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-junk-reportedly-smashed-a-chinese-military-satellite2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite-yunhai-1-02\" class=\"\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em> reports<\/a>, in what\u2019s likely the worst orbital collision since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The collision illustrates the growing danger of derelict spacecraft parts and other jetsam in Earth\u2019s orbit, where they can smash functional equipment \u2014 as well as the extraordinary difficulty in figuring out what\u2019s going on in Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1426771798276943872\" class=\"\">an investigation<\/a> by Harvard astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, Chinese satellite Yunhai 1\u201302 likely crashed into a piece of space junk earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese military satellite appears to have gotten smashed by a disintegrating Russian rocket, Space.com reports, in what\u2019s likely the worst orbital collision since 2009. The collision illustrates the growing danger of derelict spacecraft parts and other jetsam in Earth\u2019s orbit, where they can smash functional equipment \u2014 as well as the extraordinary difficulty in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126822","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}