{"id":794395,"date":"2025-03-14T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794395"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:55:05","slug":"spacex-starlink-satellite-part-hit-a-canadian-farm-when-it-fell-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794395","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starlink satellite part hit a Canadian farm when it fell from orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">An artist\u2019s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Michal Bednarek\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A fragment of an out-of-control SpaceX Starlink satellite smashed into a farm in Canada last year, <em>New Scientist<\/em> can reveal \u2013 raising questions about the risks of de-orbiting space junk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019ll punch a hole in whatever it lands on, including your head,\u201d says Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, SpaceX launched a batch of its internet-providing Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket, but a malfunction with the rocket\u2019s upper\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2472334-starlink-satellite-part-hit-a-canadian-farm-when-it-fell-from-orbit\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An artist\u2019s impression of a Starlink satellite in orbit Michal Bednarek\/Shutterstock A fragment of an out-of-control SpaceX Starlink satellite smashed into a farm in Canada last year, New Scientist can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794395","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\/794395","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=794395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}