{"id":11582,"date":"2010-08-05T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2313"},"modified":"2010-08-05T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T15:17:44","slug":"giant-balloons-could-clear-out-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/giant-balloons-could-clear-out-space-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant balloons could clear out space junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tHelium balloons are known for pulling things up, but they could be a great way to drag defunct satellites down to Earth, a team of engineers says.<\/p>\n<p>\tDead satellites pose a hazard to other orbiting spacecraft. In 2009, one of them wandered into the path of a still-functioning satellite, destroying both craft and spawning thousands of pieces of new space junk.<\/p>\n<p>\tOne way to prevent such collisions is to have satellites fire their own engines at the end of their useful lives in order to push themselves into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere, where they would be incinerated. But this requires launching them with extra fuel, adding mass that drives up the cost of launch.<\/p>\n<p>\tBalloons would be a cheaper way to solve the problem, says a team of engineers. Kristin Gates of the Global Aerospace Corporation in Altadena, California, presented the idea on Tuesday at the Astrodynamics Specialist conference in Toronto, Canada.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19262-giant-balloons-could-clear-out-space-junk.html\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helium balloons are known for pulling things up, but they could be a great way to drag defunct satellites down to Earth, a team of engineers says. Dead satellites pose a hazard to other orbiting spacecraft. In 2009, one of them wandered into the path of a still-functioning satellite, destroying both craft and spawning thousands &#8230; <a title=\"Giant balloons could clear out space junk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/giant-balloons-could-clear-out-space-junk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}