{"id":670187,"date":"2020-10-15T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670187"},"modified":"2020-10-15T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T17:56:26","slug":"two-old-spacecraft-just-avoided-catastrophically-colliding-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670187","title":{"rendered":"Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster have narrowly avoided a collision. If they had hit each other, it would have created two orbiting clouds of hazardous shrapnel that could threaten other satellites&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2257525-two-old-spacecraft-just-avoided-catastrophically-colliding-in-orbit\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Two old spacecraft just avoided catastrophically colliding in orbit<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New Scientist &#8211; Space&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A defunct navigation satellite and an old rocket booster have narrowly avoided a collision. If they had hit each other, it would have created two orbiting clouds of hazardous shrapnel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670187","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=670187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}