{"id":14164,"date":"2026-03-31T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:49:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:49:41","slug":"satellites-swarming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/03\/31\/satellites-swarming\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellites Swarming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/ng-interactive\/2026\/mar\/31\/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018This feels fragile\u2019: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/frederick-o-brien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frederick O&#8217;Brien<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/ashley-kirk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashley Kirk<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/oliver-holmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oliver Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1024x819.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-1024x819.png 1024w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-980x784.png 980w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-480x384.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>By NASA image &#8211; NASA Orbital Debris Program Office, photo gallery, Public Domain<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some reports suggest that by the end of this decade there could more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-22-105166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60,000 active satellites in space<\/a>. Launch by launch, what began with a handful of scientific and military spacecraft has accelerated into a constant flow of objects, publicly and privately owned, placed into different orbital lanes, each serving a variety of purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is now a diverse collection of satellites spinning around the globe, \u200bincluding communication\u200b and weather \u200bsatellites\u200b, navigation satellites and Earth observation technology that takes images of the surface<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/ng-interactive\/2026\/mar\/31\/this-feels-fragile-how-a-satellite-smashing-chain-reaction-could-spiral-out-of-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian \u2018This feels fragile\u2019: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially by Frederick O&#8217;Brien,\u00a0Ashley Kirk\u00a0and\u00a0Oliver Holmes Some reports suggest that by the end of this decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14166,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14164\/revisions\/14166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}