{"id":191093,"date":"2024-06-12T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/plasma-physicist-warns-that-elon-musks-disposable-satellites-may-be-damaging-the-earths-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2024-06-12T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:40","slug":"plasma-physicist-warns-that-elon-musks-disposable-satellites-may-be-damaging-the-earths-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/plasma-physicist-warns-that-elon-musks-disposable-satellites-may-be-damaging-the-earths-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Plasma Physicist Warns That Elon Musk\u2019s Disposable Satellites May Be Damaging the Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/plasma-physicist-warns-that-elon-musks-disposable-satellites-may-be-damaging-the-earths-magnetic-field2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dead satellites and other debris are constantly burning up as they fall out of Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional wisdom is destroying all that space junk is good, because it keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/space-startup-ceo-orbit-filling-up-space-startups\" class=\"\">orbit less cluttered<\/a>. But it may have harmful effects on our planet\u2019s magnetic field, as plasma physicist and former Air Force research scientist Sierra Solter \u2014 the author of a contentious and yet-to-be-peer-reviewed <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2312.09329\">paper<\/a> \u2014 argues in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/16\/dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field\" class=\"\">new essay for <em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ventures like Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX are launching thousands of satellites into orbit, and tens of thousands more are soon to follow as interest in the private space industry and space tourism continues to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead satellites and other debris are constantly burning up as they fall out of Earth\u2019s orbit. Conventional wisdom is destroying all that space junk is good, because it keeps orbit less cluttered. But it may have harmful effects on our planet\u2019s magnetic field, as plasma physicist and former Air Force research scientist Sierra Solter \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191093","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=191093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}