{"id":662946,"date":"2020-08-04T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662946"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:35:00","slug":"first-laser-detection-of-space-debris-in-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662946","title":{"rendered":"First laser detection of space debris in daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ESA_s_Optical_Ground_Station_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"ESA's Optical Ground Station\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lasers on Earth are used to measure the position of <a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/Space_Debris\" title=\"Space debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">space debris<\/a> high above, providing crucial information on how to avoid <a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/Space_Debris\/Automating_collision_avoidance\" title=\"Automating collision avoidance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">in-space collisions<\/a>. Until now, this technique has suffered from a fatal flaw.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Space_Debris\/First_laser_detection_of_space_debris_in_daylight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">First laser detection of space debris in daylight<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasers on Earth are used to measure the position of space debris high above, providing crucial information on how to avoid in-space collisions. Until now, this technique has suffered from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":662947,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662946","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\/662946","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=662946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/662947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}