{"id":502908,"date":"2026-02-25T10:17:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:17:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:17:28","slug":"why-elon-musks-million-satellites-could-spell-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/502908\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk\u2019s million satellites could spell disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">Elon Musk and his SpaceX team want to launch up to one million satellites as part of a proposal to power massive data centres in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">They pitch it as a clean, green alternative to regular data centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">But as Earth\u2019s orbit becomes increasingly crowded, what will Musk\u2019s mega constellation do to our night sky? And could a crash between satellites set off a catastrophic chain reaction?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">Today, Associate Professor of Astronomy Sam Lawler on the potential for disaster, the need for new space laws \u2013 and even the time a huge piece of space junk landed in her home town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">If you enjoy 7am, the best way you can support us is by making a contribution at 7ampodcast.com.au\/support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-article-body\">Socials: Stay in touch with us on Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and his SpaceX team want to launch up to one million satellites as part of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-502908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}