{"id":99140,"date":"2019-11-29T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/dead-satellites-pose-danger-to-humans-warns-european-space-agency"},"modified":"2019-11-29T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:24:44","slug":"dead-satellites-pose-danger-to-humans-warns-european-space-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/dead-satellites-pose-danger-to-humans-warns-european-space-agency","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dead satellites\u2019 pose danger to humans, warns European Space Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dead-satellites-pose-danger-to-humans-warns-european-space-agency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of \u2018dead\u2019 satellites are floating in space and pose a \u2018very big danger\u2019 to humanity, the head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/\">European Space Agency<\/a> (Esa) has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the agency\u2019s ministerial council in Seville, Jan Worner said that of almost 4,500 satellites in orbit, only 1,500 are active.<\/p>\n<p>Space scientists are concerned that defunct satellites could hit other satellites or the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/international-space-station\/\"> International Space Station (ISS)<\/a>, which would then cause more debris, setting off a catastrophic chain reaction that could wipe out telecommunications systems \u2014 a phenomenon known as Kessler Syndrome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of \u2018dead\u2019 satellites are floating in space and pose a \u2018very big danger\u2019 to humanity, the head of the European Space Agency (Esa) has warned. Speaking at the agency\u2019s ministerial council in Seville, Jan Worner said that of almost 4,500 satellites in orbit, only 1,500 are active. Space scientists are concerned that defunct satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99140","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=99140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}