{"id":129932,"date":"2021-11-03T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/engineers-find-new-way-to-clean-up-space-junk-in-orbit"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:22:27","slug":"engineers-find-new-way-to-clean-up-space-junk-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/engineers-find-new-way-to-clean-up-space-junk-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Find New Way to Clean Up Space Junk in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-find-new-way-to-clean-up-space-junk-in-orbit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have devised a new technique to clear space debris using magnets.<\/p>\n<p>This would allow you to move the debris where you wanted it to go without actually having to touch it. \u201cWhat we wanted to do was to manipulate the thing, not just shove it but actually manipulate it like you do on Earth,\u201d Abbott said. \u201cThat form of dexterous manipulation has never been done before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While this is important for clearing out space junk that can\u2019t be repaired, this method could also be \u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have devised a new technique to clear space debris using magnets. This would allow you to move the debris where you wanted it to go without actually having to touch it. \u201cWhat we wanted to do was to manipulate the thing, not just shove it but actually manipulate it like you do on Earth,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}