{"id":234478,"date":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:05:48","slug":"this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This feels fragile\u2019: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234478","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=234478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}