{"id":11246,"date":"2021-03-16T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2021-03-21T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:45:24","slug":"mo-space-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/16\/mo-space-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo&#8217; Space Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/space-news\/massive-piece-of-space-junk-tossed-from-iss-sets-record\/916013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from UPI via AccuWeather<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Massive piece of space junk tossed from ISS sets new record<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Daniel Uria, UPI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.accuweather.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/29-ton-battery-pallet-becomes-largest-object-discharged-from-space-station.jpg?w=632\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Photo courtesy NASA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 15 (UPI) &#8212; A pallet of batteries was released from the International Space Station last week, becoming the heaviest single piece of junk ever jettisoned from the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release an external pallet loaded with the 2.9 tons of nickel-hydrogen batteries into Earth&#8217;s orbit Thursday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is safely moving away from the station and will orbit Earth between two to four years before burning up harmlessly in the atmosphere,&#8221; NASA said in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/spacestation\/2021\/03\/11\/worm-observations-eye-checks-as-weekend-spacewalk-approaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA representative Leah Cheshier\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/iss-ditches-2-9-ton-pallet-of-batteries-creating-its-m-1846476992\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed to Gizmodo<\/a>\u00a0that the pallet is the largest object &#8220;mass wise&#8221; ever to be dispelled from the ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/space-news\/massive-piece-of-space-junk-tossed-from-iss-sets-record\/916013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AccuWeather<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UPI via AccuWeather Massive piece of space junk tossed from ISS sets new record By\u00a0Daniel Uria, UPI March 15 (UPI) &#8212; A pallet of batteries was released from the International Space Station last week, becoming the heaviest single piece of junk ever jettisoned from the station. Mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic [&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-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","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=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}