{"id":194538,"date":"2024-08-14T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/there-are-10000-active-satellites-in-orbit-most-belong-to-elon-musk"},"modified":"2024-08-14T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:23:20","slug":"there-are-10000-active-satellites-in-orbit-most-belong-to-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/there-are-10000-active-satellites-in-orbit-most-belong-to-elon-musk","title":{"rendered":"There Are 10,000 Active Satellites In Orbit. Most Belong To Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/there-are-10000-active-satellites-in-orbit-most-belong-to-elon-musk3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in human history, there are now 10,000 functioning satellites above our heads, whipping around the Earth at high speed. It\u2019s a milestone that showcases decades of technical achievement but might also make it harder to sleep at night if you think about it for too long.<\/p>\n<p>The count comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/stats\/acdec.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/stats\/acdec.html\" aria-label=\"latest estimate\">latest estimate<\/a> by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and leading watcher of most things orbital. McDowell estimates there are 10,036 active satellites in orbit as of July 18.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, this figure has roughly quadrupled over just the past half-decade, thanks almost entirely to Elon Musk, SpaceX and their massive Starlink constellation of broadband routers in low-earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in human history, there are now 10,000 functioning satellites above our heads, whipping around the Earth at high speed. It\u2019s a milestone that showcases decades of technical achievement but might also make it harder to sleep at night if you think about it for too long. The count comes from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194538","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=194538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}