{"id":236119,"date":"2026-04-29T06:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/2-8-days-to-disaster-scientists-warn-low-earth-orbit-could-suddenly-collapse"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T11:15:22","slug":"2-8-days-to-disaster-scientists-warn-low-earth-orbit-could-suddenly-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/2-8-days-to-disaster-scientists-warn-low-earth-orbit-could-suddenly-collapse","title":{"rendered":"2.8 Days to Disaster: Scientists Warn Low Earth Orbit Could Suddenly Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/2-8-days-to-disaster-scientists-warn-low-earth-orbit-could-suddenly-collapse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study warns that if satellite operators suddenly lose control during a major disruption, a catastrophic collision in orbit could happen in as little as 2.8 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study warns that if satellite operators suddenly lose control during a major disruption, a catastrophic collision in orbit could happen in as little as 2.8 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236119","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}