{"id":131710,"date":"2021-12-03T13:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/esas-riskiest-flyby"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:32","slug":"esas-riskiest-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/esas-riskiest-flyby","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s riskiest flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9aqfIAJrJo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The chance that ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not zero and is greater than any other flyby ESA has performed. That there is this risk at all highlights the mess we\u2019ve made of space\u2014and why we need to take action to clean up after ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>On 27 November, after a year and eight months flying through the inner Solar System, Solar Orbiter will swing by home to \u2018drop off\u2019 some extra energy. This will line the spacecraft up for its next six flybys of Venus. These final gravity assists will hone and tilt Solar Orbiter\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/orbit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">orbit<\/a>, enabling the heat-protected probe to capture the first-ever direct images of our star\u2019s poles, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chance that ESA\u2019s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will encounter space debris during its upcoming Earth flyby is very, very low. However, the risk is not zero and is greater than any other flyby ESA has performed. That there is this risk at all highlights the mess we\u2019ve made of space\u2014and why we need to take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131710","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}