{"id":3926759,"date":"2026-07-01T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/13000-tons-of-space-junk-clutters-earth-orbit-heres-how-it-could-be-cleaned-up\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:02:23","slug":"13000-tons-of-space-junk-clutters-earth-orbit-heres-how-it-could-be-cleaned-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/13000-tons-of-space-junk-clutters-earth-orbit-heres-how-it-could-be-cleaned-up\/","title":{"rendered":"13,000 tons of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here&#8217;s how it could be cleaned up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000\u2014about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX. The world&#8217;s first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million more satellites, each roughly 70 meters (230 feet) long and 20 meters (66 feet) wide, that would form a data center megaconstellation.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-tons-space-junk-clutters-earth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago, Earth had only one satellite: the moon. Now it has more than 15,000\u2014about 10,000 of which are owned by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX. The world&#8217;s first trillionaire plans to launch 1 million more satellites, each roughly 70 meters (230 feet) long and 20 meters (66 feet) wide, that would form a data center [&#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-3926759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926759","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=3926759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}