{"id":143352,"date":"2022-07-31T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/space-junk-1962-2022-%f0%9f%9b%b0%ef%b8%8f"},"modified":"2022-07-31T23:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T04:35:11","slug":"space-junk-1962-2022-%f0%9f%9b%b0%ef%b8%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/space-junk-1962-2022-%f0%9f%9b%b0%ef%b8%8f","title":{"rendered":"Space junk, 1962\u20132022 \ud83d\udef0\ufe0f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-junk-1962-2022-f09f9bb0efb88f.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddd1\ufe0f Space junk (space debris, space pollution, space waste, or space garbage) is defunct man-made objects in space (mainly in Earth orbit) that no longer serve a useful function.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40 And here is how its number has changed over the past 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>*As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth, including 4,450 operational satellites. However, these are just objects large enough to be tracked.<\/p>\n<p>#spacejunk #satellites #earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd1\ufe0f Space junk (space debris, space pollution, space waste, or space garbage) is defunct man-made objects in space (mainly in Earth orbit) that no longer serve a useful function. \ud83d\udc40 And here is how its number has changed over the past 60 years. *As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143352","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}