{"id":184027,"date":"2024-02-29T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/air-breathing-propulsion-tech-could-unlock-unlimited-propellant-for-satellites"},"modified":"2024-02-29T23:23:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T05:23:56","slug":"air-breathing-propulsion-tech-could-unlock-unlimited-propellant-for-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/air-breathing-propulsion-tech-could-unlock-unlimited-propellant-for-satellites","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Air-breathing\u2019 propulsion tech could unlock unlimited propellant for satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5tZbd3_JdgE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s orbit is so populated that the space industry is now developing technologies to remove space debris caused by satellites from an over-crowded low Earth orbit (<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/lists\/low-earth-orbit-significant-spacecraft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"dofollow\">LEO<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>One untapped orbit above Earth does exist, though. The so-called very low Earth orbit (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Preparing_for_the_Future\/Discovery_and_Preparation\/ESA_seeks_space_applications_ideas_in_Very_Low_Earth_Orbit#:~:text=Very%20Low%20Earth%20Orbit%20(VLEO)%2C%20situated%20at%20an%20altitude, and%20allows%20for%20smaller%20payloads.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">VLEO<\/a>) would allow satellites to fly in a less crowded space closer to home and take more detailed pictures of our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth\u2019s orbit is so populated that the space industry is now developing technologies to remove space debris caused by satellites from an over-crowded low Earth orbit (LEO). One untapped orbit above Earth does exist, though. The so-called very low Earth orbit (VLEO) would allow satellites to fly in a less crowded space closer to home [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184027","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}