{"id":79845,"date":"2018-06-20T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T05:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronauts-eject-space-junk-demo-mission"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:01:37","slug":"astronauts-eject-space-junk-demo-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/astronauts-eject-space-junk-demo-mission","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts eject space junk demo mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronauts-eject-space-junk-demo-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u00a313m RemoveDebris spacecraft was taken to the ISS in April and stored onboard ahead of Wednesday\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was pushed out of an airlock where a robotic arm then picked it up gave it a gentle nudge down and away from the 400km-high lab.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, RemoveDebris became the largest satellite to ever be deployed from the International Space Station. The time was about 12:35 BST.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-44550082\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-44550082<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u00a313m RemoveDebris spacecraft was taken to the ISS in April and stored onboard ahead of Wednesday\u2019s release. The spacecraft was pushed out of an airlock where a robotic arm then picked it up gave it a gentle nudge down and away from the 400km-high lab. In the process, RemoveDebris became the largest satellite to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79845","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=79845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79845\/revisions\/79848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}