{"id":98385,"date":"2019-11-11T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-satellite-that-fires-fake-shooting-stars-is-ready-to-launch"},"modified":"2019-11-11T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T21:43:14","slug":"a-satellite-that-fires-fake-shooting-stars-is-ready-to-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-satellite-that-fires-fake-shooting-stars-is-ready-to-launch","title":{"rendered":"A Satellite That Fires Fake Shooting Stars Is Ready to Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-satellite-that-fires-fake-shooting-stars-is-ready-to-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Burning Garbage<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The satellite will launch centimeter-long pellets that will incinerate upon re-entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere. From the ground, they\u2019re expected to look similar to slow-moving shooting stars and will take anywhere from three to ten seconds to burn away, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this launch, we are a step closer to realiz[ing] the man-made shooting star,\u201d Astro Live Experiences CEO Lena Okajima said, per <em><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/em>. \u201cPlease look forward to the world\u2019s first demonstration we are aiming [for] in 2020, which will be a major milestone for ALE.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burning Garbage The satellite will launch centimeter-long pellets that will incinerate upon re-entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere. From the ground, they\u2019re expected to look similar to slow-moving shooting stars and will take anywhere from three to ten seconds to burn away, Space.com reports. \u201cWith this launch, we are a step closer to realiz[ing] the man-made shooting star,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98385","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=98385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}