{"id":371489,"date":"2026-04-09T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371489\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:37:20","slug":"mosti-probes-suspected-space-debris-sighting-over-sarawak-our-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371489\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSTI probes suspected space debris sighting over Sarawak | Our Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) has confirmed receiving preliminary information regarding a suspected space debris sighting in the airspace over Sarawak on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said no official reports have so far been lodged regarding the discovery of any debris, whether on land or at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Based on an initial review of a widely circulated video, the object is believed to be potentially part of space debris, although further verification remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonitoring is being actively carried out by the Space Authority Division (BPAngkasa) in collaboration with the Malaysian Space Agency (MYSA),\u201d the ministry said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been advised not to touch any suspicious objects and to report such findings immediately to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Any information can be channelled via the emergency hotline 999 or by contacting the Space Authority Division directly. &#8211; April 9, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) has confirmed receiving preliminary information regarding a suspected space debris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[12898,194223,194222,111,139,69,7535,177329,147,392,1023],"class_list":{"0":"post-371489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-investigation","9":"tag-malaysian-space-agency","10":"tag-mosti","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-public-safety","15":"tag-sarawak","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space","18":"tag-space-debris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}