{"id":127561,"date":"2021-09-11T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T05:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/starlink-satellite-drops-out-of-orbit-fears-of-crashing-into-the-uk"},"modified":"2021-09-11T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T05:22:46","slug":"starlink-satellite-drops-out-of-orbit-fears-of-crashing-into-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/starlink-satellite-drops-out-of-orbit-fears-of-crashing-into-the-uk","title":{"rendered":"Starlink satellite drops out of orbit, fears of crashing into the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starlink-satellite-drops-out-of-orbit-fears-of-crashing-into-the-uk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK Space Agency tweeted: \u201cWe are monitoring its re-entry together with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceHQ\">@DefenceHQ<\/a>, and there is no expectation the re-entry will cause any damage. Due to the varying input data, natural forces and associated observation error, there are always high levels of uncertainty when performing re-entry predictions on any satellite\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, a Starlink-1855 satellite re-entered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. There is a chance it will re-enter over the UK, and you might be able to spot the satellite as it burns up. Starlink has a fantastic track record or orchestrating safe and reliable re-entries. We do not expect the return of the satellite to cause any damage. Still the UK Space Agency and the Ministry of Defence continually monitor and assess the re-entries of satellite and debris and any risk to British territories through our joined Space Surveillance and Tracking capabilities\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Space Agency tweeted: \u201cWe are monitoring its re-entry together with @DefenceHQ, and there is no expectation the re-entry will cause any damage. Due to the varying input data, natural forces and associated observation error, there are always high levels of uncertainty when performing re-entry predictions on any satellite\u201d. \u201cToday, a Starlink-1855 satellite re-entered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,8,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-space","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127561","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}