{"id":172169,"date":"2023-09-16T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/stop-crowding-earths-orbital-environment-esa-report"},"modified":"2023-09-16T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T22:26:07","slug":"stop-crowding-earths-orbital-environment-esa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/stop-crowding-earths-orbital-environment-esa-report","title":{"rendered":"Stop crowding earth\u2019s orbital environment: ESA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stop-crowding-earths-orbital-environment-esa-report2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem of space debris would worsen even if we sent nothing else into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Space Environment report 2023 was published last August and highlighted a key problem: space debris. \u201cOur planet is surrounded by spacecraft carrying out important work to study our changing climate, deliver global communication and navigation services and help us answer important scientific questions,\u201d noted the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut some of their orbits are getting crowded and increasingly churning with deadly, fast-moving pieces of defunct satellites and rockets that threaten our future in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dottedhippo\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur planet is surrounded by spacecraft carrying out important work to study our changing climate, deliver global communication and navigation services and help us answer important scientific questions,\u201d noted the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem of space debris would worsen even if we sent nothing else into orbit. ESA\u2019s Space Environment report 2023 was published last August and highlighted a key problem: space debris. \u201cOur planet is surrounded by spacecraft carrying out important work to study our changing climate, deliver global communication and navigation services and help us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172169","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}