{"id":10140,"date":"2019-09-05T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2019-09-29T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T21:45:06","slug":"space-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/05\/space-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>from Fast Company<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SpaceX is playing a game of chicken with its Starlink satellites<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/user\/michael-grothaus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">BY\u00a0MICHAEL GROTHAUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.fastcompany.net\/image\/upload\/w_1153,ar_16:9,c_fill,g_auto,f_auto,q_auto,fl_lossy\/wp-cms\/uploads\/2019\/09\/p-1-spacex-is-playing-a-game-of-chicken-with-its-starlink-satellites.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX is playing a game of chicken with its Starlink satellites\"\/><figcaption>[Photo: Flickr user\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacex\/47926144123\/in\/photolist-2g24YR6-2g24YPc-2g24YMd-2g251VH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Official SpaceX Photos<\/a>]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX apparently doesn\u2019t play well with others when it comes to space traffic. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonathanocallaghan\/2019\/09\/02\/spacex-refused-to-move-a-starlink-satellite-at-risk-of-collision-with-a-european-satellite\/#7708513a1f62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Forbes<\/em>&nbsp;reports<\/a>, on Monday the European Space Agency (ESA) said it had to perform collision avoidance maneuvers with its Aeolus Earth observation satellite when it detected that it had a 1 in 1,000 chance of hitting \u201cStarlink 44,\u201d one of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While those odds of a collision might seem slim, they were actually 10 times higher than the threshold that requires a collision avoidance maneuver.\u00a0<strong>The thing is, when the ESA realized its satellite was on a potential collision course with Starlink 44, the agency contacted SpaceX and asked it to move its satellite out of the way. But SpaceX refused to, turning the incident into a game of chicken in space.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90398265\/spacex-is-playing-a-game-of-chicken-with-its-starlink-satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Fast Company (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Fast Company<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Fast Company SpaceX is playing a game of chicken with its Starlink satellites BY\u00a0MICHAEL GROTHAUS Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX apparently doesn\u2019t play well with others when it comes to space traffic. As&nbsp;Forbes&nbsp;reports, on Monday the European Space Agency (ESA) said it had to perform collision avoidance maneuvers with its Aeolus Earth observation satellite when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}