{"id":1806,"date":"2024-09-14T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1806"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:24:54","slug":"private-space-trash-public-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/private-space-trash-public-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Space Trash, Public Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of satellites orbiting the earth is increasing at an alarming rate, and most of the increase is coming from private companies, especially StarLink, the satellite internet service operated by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/H7TtL\/https:\/www.wired.com\/tag\/spacex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0and helmed by billionaire\u00a0E<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/o\/H7TtL\/https:\/www.wired.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lon Musk<\/a>.\u00a0 Starlink has become such a problem, in fact, that a major nonprofit is urging the United States to pause them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As Skies Fill With Space Junk, Nonprofit Urges US to Pause StarLink Launches<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/H7TtL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/archive.is\/H7TtL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780262539654\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of satellites orbiting the earth is increasing at an alarming rate, and most of the increase is coming from private companies, especially StarLink, the satellite internet service operated by\u00a0SpaceX\u00a0and helmed by billionaire\u00a0Elon Musk.\u00a0 Starlink has become such a problem, in fact, that a major nonprofit is urging the United States to pause them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/private-space-trash-public-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Private Space Trash, Public Problem&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,53,40,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-global","category-politics","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}