{"id":135328,"date":"2022-02-07T18:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite"},"modified":"2022-02-07T18:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T02:22:37","slug":"chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Chinese \u2018space cleaner\u2019 spotted grabbing and throwing away old satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-space-cleaner-spotted-grabbing-and-throwing-away-old-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese satellite was spotted apparently clearing up space junk. But US officials are concerned the technology could be used against non-junk satellites.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Last month, a private satellite tracking company spotted a Chinese spacecraft apparently grabbing and throwing a dead satellite away into a \u201cgraveyard\u201d orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese satellite was spotted apparently clearing up space junk. But US officials are concerned the technology could be used against non-junk satellites. Last month, a private satellite tracking company spotted a Chinese spacecraft apparently grabbing and throwing a dead satellite away into a \u201cgraveyard\u201d orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135328","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\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}