{"id":87903,"date":"2019-02-18T13:42:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/watch-a-harpoon-attached-to-a-satellite-spear-a-piece-of-space-debris"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:42:58","slug":"watch-a-harpoon-attached-to-a-satellite-spear-a-piece-of-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/watch-a-harpoon-attached-to-a-satellite-spear-a-piece-of-space-debris","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Harpoon Attached to a Satellite Spear a Piece of Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3oryJMdonUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The test is actually the RemoveDEBRIS satellite\u2019s second trick: in September, it successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/removedebris-space-debris\">deployed a spider-like web<\/a> that was meant to grab space junk out of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The team at the University of Surrey is now preparing for its third and final test: RemoveDEBRIS will inflate a sail that will slowly drag it into Earth\u2019s atmosphere where it will burn up and be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-space-junk-harpooned-whale-orbit-cleanup.html\">Space junk harpooned like whale in orbit-cleanup test<\/a> [<em>Associated Press<\/em>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/removedebris-satellite-harpoon-space-debris\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/removedebris-satellite-harpoon-space-debris<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The test is actually the RemoveDEBRIS satellite\u2019s second trick: in September, it successfully deployed a spider-like web that was meant to grab space junk out of the sky. The team at the University of Surrey is now preparing for its third and final test: RemoveDEBRIS will inflate a sail that will slowly drag it into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87903","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}