{"id":3299,"date":"2019-04-03T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2019-04-03T16:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T10:35:07","slug":"india-space-debris-may-have-doubled-after-mission-shakti-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-space-debris-may-have-doubled-after-mission-shakti-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India space debris may have doubled after Mission Shakti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The NASA has criticised India\u2019s Mission Shakti,\nthe anti-satellite missile test. The Mission was carried out by shooting down\nMicrosat-R, an Indian imaging satellite. &nbsp;<\/li><li>NASA stated that the anti-satellite missile test\nhas endangered the International Space Station (ISS) and led to the creation of\nnearly 400 pieces of orbital debris.<\/li><li>Orbital\/ space debris\/space junk are artificial\nmaterial that is orbiting Earth but is no longer functional. They consists of\ndead satellites, spent rocket motors, nuts and bolts etc.<\/li><li>Data from SPACE-TRACK.org, a public access\nrepository maintained by the U.S. defence wing, shows that prior to Mission\nShakti, India contributed only 80 pieces of space debris. There were 4,091\npieces of debris by the U.S., 4,025 by Russia and China\u2019s 4,038.<\/li><li>The International Space Station (ISS) is a space\nstation, a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. It orbits Earth\nat an average altitude of approximately 250 miles. It is a highly fortified space\nobject and has shields to buffer against space debris. ISS serves as a\nmicrogravity and space environment research laboratory.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NASA has criticised India\u2019s Mission Shakti, the anti-satellite missile test. The Mission was carried out by shooting down Microsat-R, an Indian imaging satellite. &nbsp; NASA stated that the anti-satellite missile test has endangered the International Space Station (ISS) and led to the creation of nearly 400 pieces of orbital debris. Orbital\/ space debris\/space junk&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-space-debris-may-have-doubled-after-mission-shakti-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India space debris may have doubled after Mission Shakti<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2182,2274],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-mission-shakti","tag-space-debris","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703529541},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}