{"id":62149,"date":"2019-06-28T18:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/indian-satellite-debris-still-orbiting-earth\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T18:14:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:14:44","slug":"indian-satellite-debris-still-orbiting-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/indian-satellite-debris-still-orbiting-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Satellite Debris Still Orbiting Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement that India successfully took down a redundant satellite with an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile from Earth. A new report states that the mission has left behind hazardous debris that pose a threat to other space missions.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed Mission Shakti, this was a stealth mission that wasn\u2019t revealed until it was successfully executed. In a matter of just 3 minutes, a satellite in the low-Earth orbit of 300 km was destroyed, a feat previously achieved only by China, Russia, and the U.S. But the mission was immediately met with criticism as it raised concerns over the space debris being projected around as a result of the explosion. In outer space, even small pieces of debris can cause heavy damage to other spacecrafts due to the speed at which they travel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read More at Mashable India &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago, India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement that India successfully took down a redundant satellite with an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile from Earth. A new report states that the mission has left behind hazardous debris that pose a threat to other space missions. Dubbed Mission Shakti, this was a stealth mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}