{"id":70441,"date":"2017-06-19T07:02:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/magnetic-space-tug-could-target-dead-satellites"},"modified":"2017-06-19T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:02:36","slug":"magnetic-space-tug-could-target-dead-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/magnetic-space-tug-could-target-dead-satellites","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic space tug could target dead satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/magnetic-space-tug-could-target-dead-satellites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Derelict satellites could in future be grappled and removed from key orbits around Earth with a space tug using magnetic forces.<\/p>\n<p>This same magnetic attraction or repulsion is also being considered as a safe method for multiple satellites to maintain close formations in space.<\/p>\n<p>Such satellite swarms are being considered for future astronomy or Earth-observing missions \u2013 if their relative positions can stay stable they could act as a single giant telescope.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Magnetic_space_tug_could_target_dead_satellites\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technolo...satellites<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derelict satellites could in future be grappled and removed from key orbits around Earth with a space tug using magnetic forces. This same magnetic attraction or repulsion is also being considered as a safe method for multiple satellites to maintain close formations in space. Such satellite swarms are being considered for future astronomy or Earth-observing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70441","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}