{"id":89146,"date":"2019-04-02T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/india-anti-satellite-missile-test-a-terrible-thing-nasa-chief-says"},"modified":"2019-04-02T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:03:15","slug":"india-anti-satellite-missile-test-a-terrible-thing-nasa-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/india-anti-satellite-missile-test-a-terrible-thing-nasa-chief-says","title":{"rendered":"India anti-satellite missile test a \u2018terrible thing,\u2019 NASA chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/india-anti-satellite-missile-test-a-terrible-thing-nasa-chief-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s anti-satellite missile test created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris, the head of NASA says \u2014 placing the International Space Station (ISS) and its astronauts at risk.<\/p>\n<p>NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday that just 60 pieces of debris were large enough to track. Of those, 24 went above the apogee of the ISS, the point of the space station\u2019s orbit farthest from the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is a terrible, terrible thing to create an event that sends debris at an apogee that goes above the International Space Station,\u201d Bridenstine said in a live-streamed NASA<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasalive\" target=\"_blank\"> town hall meeting<\/a>. \u201cThat kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/02\/india\/nasa-india-anti-missile-test-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/02\/india\/nasa-india-anti-missile...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s anti-satellite missile test created at least 400 pieces of orbital debris, the head of NASA says \u2014 placing the International Space Station (ISS) and its astronauts at risk. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday that just 60 pieces of debris were large enough to track. Of those, 24 went above the apogee of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89146","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}