{"id":77247,"date":"2018-03-29T14:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/astro-litter-picker-launches-to-help-clean-up-7600-tonnes-of-space-junk"},"modified":"2018-03-29T14:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T21:22:42","slug":"astro-litter-picker-launches-to-help-clean-up-7600-tonnes-of-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/astro-litter-picker-launches-to-help-clean-up-7600-tonnes-of-space-junk","title":{"rendered":"Astro litter-picker launches to help clean up 7,600 tonnes of space junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astro-litter-picker-launches-to-help-clean-up-7600-tonnes-of-space-junk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>T he world\u2019s most advanced litter-picker will be launched into space next week to clean up floating debris which is threatening satellites and the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>Surrey University has designed a spacecraft which can grab space junk then pull it into Earth\u2019s atmosphere where it is burned up.<\/p>\n<p>The little craft, named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ac.uk\/surrey-space-centre\/missions\/removedebris\">RemoveDebris<\/a>, is due to launch from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedyspacecenter.com\/\">Kennedy Space Centre<\/a> on Monday, on board one of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/03\/29\/astro-litter-picker-launches-help-clean-up7600-tonnes-space\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2018\/03\/29\/astro-litter-...nes-space\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T he world\u2019s most advanced litter-picker will be launched into space next week to clean up floating debris which is threatening satellites and the International Space Station (ISS). Surrey University has designed a spacecraft which can grab space junk then pull it into Earth\u2019s atmosphere where it is burned up. The little craft, named RemoveDebris, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77247","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=77247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}