{"id":654353,"date":"2020-05-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654353"},"modified":"2020-05-07T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:00:00","slug":"the-cost-of-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=654353","title":{"rendered":"The cost of space debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Distribution_of_space_debris_around_Earth_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Distribution of space debris around Earth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of fast-moving fragments of space debris \u2013 or \u2018space junk\u2019 &#8211; are becoming increasingly likely, threatening our continued human and technological presence in space.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\" title=\"OECD homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Organisation for Econonic Co-operation and Development<\/a> (OECD) recently published its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/environment\/space-sustainability-a339de43-en.htm\" title=\"Space sustainability - The economics of space debris in perspective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">first report<\/a> on the economic cost of space debris. Using research from <a href=\"https:\/\/read.oecd-ilibrary.org\/science-and-technology\/space-sustainability_a339de43-en#page56\" title=\"OECD report - references\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">numerous sources<\/a>, including data and analysis from ESA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/Space_Debris\" title=\"Find out more: Space debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space Debris Office<\/a>, it outlines the dangers ahead if we do not act, and what can be done to ensure our future in space.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Space_Debris\/The_cost_of_space_debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The cost of space debris<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of fast-moving fragments of space debris \u2013 or \u2018space junk\u2019 &#8211; are becoming increasingly likely, threatening our continued&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654354,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}