{"id":669573,"date":"2020-10-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669573"},"modified":"2020-10-12T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T07:00:00","slug":"the-current-state-of-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=669573","title":{"rendered":"The current state of space debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Geostationary_orbit_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Geostationary orbit \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swirling fragments of past space endeavours are trapped in orbit around Earth, threatening our future in space. Over time, the number, mass and area of these debris objects grows steadily, boosting the risk to functioning satellites.<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s Space Debris Office constantly monitors this ever-evolving debris situation, and every year publishes a report on the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdo.esoc.esa.int\/environment_report\/Space_Environment_Report_latest.pdf\" title=\"ESA's Annual Space Environment Report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">state of the debris environment<\/a>.<\/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\/The_current_state_of_space_debris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The current state of space debris<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swirling fragments of past space endeavours are trapped in orbit around Earth, threatening our future in space. Over time, the number, mass and area of these debris objects grows steadily,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669574,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669573","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\/669573","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=669573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}