{"id":158636,"date":"2023-02-21T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-debris-apocalypse-6-objects-that-could-wreak-havoc-in-earths-orbit"},"modified":"2023-02-21T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T06:30:13","slug":"space-debris-apocalypse-6-objects-that-could-wreak-havoc-in-earths-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/space-debris-apocalypse-6-objects-that-could-wreak-havoc-in-earths-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Space debris apocalypse: 6 objects that could wreak havoc in Earth\u2019s orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-debris-apocalypse-6-objects-that-could-wreak-havoc-in-earths-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The space around our planet is getting cluttered. Thousands of satellites and millions of out-of-control fragments of space debris hurtle high above our heads, threatening to collide. Here are the objects that experts fear the most.<\/p>\n<p>In just the past month, the goings-on in near-Earth space have twice made headlines and prompted experts to call for action. On Jan. 27, space debris researchers looked on in horror as two huge pieces of space junk \u2060\u2014 a decades-old upper stage of a Russian rocket and a long-defunct Russian satellite \u2014 came within 20 feet (6 meters) or so of each other. The incident, described as a close call \u201cworst case scenario,\u201d could have spawned thousands of dangerous debris fragments that would have stayed in orbit for centuries. Then, a report released on Feb. 6 revealed that in early January a mysterious Russian satellite broke apart into 85 fragments large enough to be tracked from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space around our planet is getting cluttered. Thousands of satellites and millions of out-of-control fragments of space debris hurtle high above our heads, threatening to collide. Here are the objects that experts fear the most. In just the past month, the goings-on in near-Earth space have twice made headlines and prompted experts to call [\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-158636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158636","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=158636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}