{"id":149405,"date":"2022-11-03T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/space-is-increasingly-hazardous-heres-how-nasa-dodges-deadly-debris"},"modified":"2022-11-03T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:22:19","slug":"space-is-increasingly-hazardous-heres-how-nasa-dodges-deadly-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/space-is-increasingly-hazardous-heres-how-nasa-dodges-deadly-debris","title":{"rendered":"Space is increasingly hazardous \u2014 here\u2019s how NASA dodges deadly debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-is-increasingly-hazardous-heres-how-nasa-dodges-deadly-debris3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From swerving to sheltering in place, here\u2019s how the International Space Station handles hazards on the increasingly cluttered space lanes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The most recent maneuver happened last week when the ISS boosted itself into a higher orbit to avoid debris from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/why-did-russia-blow-up-a-satellite\">2021 Russian anti-satellite missile test<\/a>. It\u2019s likely that such close calls will only get more common as humanity keeps cluttering up the space lanes with old satellites and bits of wreckage from collisions and missile tests. Here\u2019s what you need to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/what-is-kessler-syndrome\">space debris and how to avoid it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>How does the International Space Station dodge space debris?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tempting to picture astronauts piloting the ISS like it\u2019s the Millennium Falcon, relying on their lightning reflexes (and maybe the Force) to swerve around bits of obliterated spaceships, often with mere inches to spare. The reality \u2014 like a lot of things in space flight \u2014 is much slower and happens over much bigger distances than Hollywood\u2019s version. But it can still be extremely tense, as lives are at stake, and if something goes wrong, help is not on the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From swerving to sheltering in place, here\u2019s how the International Space Station handles hazards on the increasingly cluttered space lanes. The most recent maneuver happened last week when the ISS boosted itself into a higher orbit to avoid debris from a 2021 Russian anti-satellite missile test. It\u2019s likely that such close calls will only get [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149405","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}