{"id":3927495,"date":"2026-08-14T20:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/starwashing-how-space-companies-use-the-greenwashing-playbook-while-causing-environmental-damage\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T01:02:22","slug":"starwashing-how-space-companies-use-the-greenwashing-playbook-while-causing-environmental-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/starwashing-how-space-companies-use-the-greenwashing-playbook-while-causing-environmental-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Starwashing&#8217;: How space companies use the greenwashing playbook while causing environmental damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>From launchpads to low Earth orbit and beyond, space companies and their affiliates are deploying a familiar marketing tactic\u2014with a new twist. In a space economy projected to reach US$1.8 trillion by 2035, they sell space exploration narratives by appealing to a desire to expand humankind beyond Earth\u2014while downplaying or omitting the negative repercussions for Earth and the space environment. Welcome to the age of starwashing.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-starwashing-space-companies-greenwashing-playbook.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From launchpads to low Earth orbit and beyond, space companies and their affiliates are deploying a familiar marketing tactic\u2014with a new twist. In a space economy projected to reach US$1.8 trillion by 2035, they sell space exploration narratives by appealing to a desire to expand humankind beyond Earth\u2014while downplaying or omitting the negative repercussions for [&#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-3927495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927495","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=3927495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}