{"id":141216,"date":"2022-06-28T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-say-the-sun-is-acting-up-and-causing-satellites-to-fall-back-to-earth"},"modified":"2022-06-28T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T08:02:33","slug":"scientists-say-the-sun-is-acting-up-and-causing-satellites-to-fall-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/scientists-say-the-sun-is-acting-up-and-causing-satellites-to-fall-back-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say the Sun Is Acting Up and Causing Satellites to Fall Back to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-the-sun-is-acting-up-and-causing-satellites-to-fall-back-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most folks probably don\u2019t think of satellites as capable of sinking, but according to the European Space Agency they can and do.<\/p>\n<p>Space news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/satellites-falling-off-sky-solar-weather\" class=\"\"><em>Space<\/em>. <em>com<\/em> reported Thursday<\/a> that ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth\u2019s magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last five, six years, the satellites were sinking about two and a half kilometers [1.5 miles] a year,\u201d Swarm mission managerAnja Stromme, ESA\u2019s told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em>. \u201cBut since December last year, they have been virtually diving. The sink rate between December and April has been 20 kilometers [12 miles] per year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks probably don\u2019t think of satellites as capable of sinking, but according to the European Space Agency they can and do. Space news site Space. com reported Thursday that ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth\u2019s magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather. \u201cIn the last [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141216","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}