{"id":3925807,"date":"2026-05-06T00:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/space-junk-falls-to-earth-faster-when-sunspots-peak-reshaping-satellite-collision-forecasts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:02:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:02:34","slug":"space-junk-falls-to-earth-faster-when-sunspots-peak-reshaping-satellite-collision-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/space-junk-falls-to-earth-faster-when-sunspots-peak-reshaping-satellite-collision-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Space junk falls to Earth faster when sunspots peak, reshaping satellite collision forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Solar emissions exert &#8216;drag&#8217; on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space junk begins to fall down much faster once the sun&#8217;s activity across the solar cycle reaches approximately 67% of its peak. This result, which is expected to hold for station-keeping satellites too, is important for better planning of space missions that avoid collisions.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-space-junk-falls-earth-faster.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar emissions exert &#8216;drag&#8217; on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space junk begins to fall down much faster once the sun&#8217;s activity across the solar cycle reaches approximately 67% of its peak. This result, which is expected to hold for station-keeping satellites [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}