{"id":77415,"date":"2014-05-27T18:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/umd-establishes-center-for-addressing-orbital-space-debris\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T10:07:39","slug":"umd-establishes-center-for-addressing-orbital-space-debris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/umd-establishes-center-for-addressing-orbital-space-debris\/","title":{"rendered":"UMD Establishes Center for Addressing Orbital Space Debris"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 05-27-2014] The<b> University of Maryland<\/b> (UMD) created a Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research (CODER) for addressing issues in orbital space debris, which often pose a threat to space-based communications, weather forecasting, Earth observation, among other services.<\/p>\n<p>Over 22,000 pieces of space \u201cjunk\u201d, particles amounting to 3.9 inches or larger, are tracked in the Earth\u2019s orbit. However, it is believed that there is a larger expanse of smaller debris that cannot be tracked with current capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of the center is to raise awareness and financial support, help to coordinate, conduct and establish collaborative research and ultimately to provide new funding streams to accelerate these efforts,\u201d said Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering Raymond Sedwick, one of the founding faculty members. \u201cThe University of Maryland is well-positioned to take the lead in creating a multi-disciplinary, multi-organizational, collaborative research center that will pursue orbital debris solutions through research in new technologies, policies and economic solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 05-27-2014] The University of Maryland (UMD) created a Center for Orbital Debris Education and Research (CODER) for addressing issues in orbital space debris, which often pose a threat to space-based communications, weather forecasting, Earth observation, among other services. Over 22,000 pieces of space \u201cjunk\u201d, particles amounting to 3.9 inches or larger, are tracked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53712,"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-77415","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\/77415"}],"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=77415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}