{"id":21894,"date":"2018-11-11T03:32:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21894"},"modified":"2018-11-11T03:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T03:32:50","slug":"space-lasers-to-blast-orbiting-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21894","title":{"rendered":"Space lasers to blast orbiting rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"68.2116788321\">\n<p>A team of scientists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/australia.html\">Australia<\/a> are preparing to fire high-powered lasers into space to blast some of the 170 million pieces of man-made debris orbiting the earth.<\/p>\n<p>That cosmic clutter, building up since successful satellite launches began in 1957, poses a constant threat to satellites, spacecraft and people.<\/p>\n<p>While firing lasers into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/space.html\">space<\/a> sounds like science fiction, scientists say the technology plays a very real role in keeping our planet safe by gently nudging the debris from one orbit into another.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Mereana Hond takes aim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists in Australia are preparing to fire high-powered lasers into space to blast some of the 170 million pieces of man-made debris orbiting the earth. That cosmic clutter, building up since successful satellite launches began in 1957, poses a constant threat to satellites, spacecraft and people. While firing lasers into space sounds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}