{"id":234156,"date":"2026-03-27T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/space-launches-are-changing-the-chemistry-of-earths-atmosphere-studies-warn-heres-what-can-be-done"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:03:33","slug":"space-launches-are-changing-the-chemistry-of-earths-atmosphere-studies-warn-heres-what-can-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/space-launches-are-changing-the-chemistry-of-earths-atmosphere-studies-warn-heres-what-can-be-done","title":{"rendered":"Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth\u2019s atmosphere, studies warn. Here\u2019s what can be done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-launches-are-changing-the-chemistry-of-earths-atmosphere-studies-warn-heres-what-can-be-done.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look up on a clear night and you\u2019ll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don\u2019t see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive.<\/p>\n<p>A wave of satellite launches and reentries is changing the chemistry and physics of the middle and upper atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Studies warn of ozone depletion, stratospheric heating and new metal aerosols from burning spacecraft. The pace is accelerating fast and unless we redesign how we use and retire satellites, we risk swapping one environmental problem (congestion in Earth orbit from too many spacecraft) for another (an atmosphere seeded with rocket soot and satellite ash).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look up on a clear night and you\u2019ll see the streaks of our new space age. What you don\u2019t see is the growing fallout for the atmosphere that keeps us alive. A wave of satellite launches and reentries is changing the chemistry and physics of the middle and upper atmosphere. Studies warn of ozone depletion, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}