{"id":434656,"date":"2026-02-19T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434656\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:41:08","slug":"spacex-rocket-fireball-linked-to-plume-of-polluting-lithium-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434656\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE9VaEFmVDBxOEM0NHVZMF83ejhNeU0wa0t0LXVJN1YtRjdIODhUQ3UxUkZlVUR3Vk9TdVRhZ2JyMlVWcnRtWERrYTdTZGlhdXp4OXJlVkZVOWpOZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxPdHVqRDh6ZlpweGtxb3VITVFqTktvaVFBOEdXQjVEUDUyOG5HWHR4RjRqTFhmWUpSZGhQUk1kUU9XbW44aGMzSjNRN2xNVUgxcEpYbFAwZnFHelJ0eVFsQVY2RXlaSFF2cVlrQkdfZE5rTWdNeWNpajR2Wi1lS1N3SGJSMUJWZHlQQUpSdUpnaFA5S2dSeWl0UERZN1YzWS1hVmp3d1NHQ1dZYUhwcVZmS01B?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge problem<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;New Scientist<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixgFBVV95cUxPSno5N2JsOUVndjJhV1NHVTJSM0ZhNlo4aF9CbUN0Z0tNeDdMOFRkLTRsZ2hCcWJuSWxfb0VxS3NkMW5ySHJNNWRWenFnUFdxcG5qOUVyNXc0OFRVZ2dONTJmZ01GNzZocE9ONDd6UFdNNERrZDY0bEh6b0d5emQ3enhKM0t6Z29Kb1JTSk5SbTdoNjRoZWhMdWVsaGhsdlpneTNneG1wV3JxcnJ3dzUzQ0t6T3BHNUVBblkteHM3YnB5M0d3ZEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Gizmodo<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxQaHFMeUZSS21EXzItcWROeEVDS3pCMXZ5cmRtbFpvSUFzcjJ3WHRqd2FtYnZYUmJrdmVzeFI3eWdVZzVpLUtFTzZEYndmUEZodURuTEphSWhUdnhzazd6YjJIQ0VHcTd0MXV1V0otTjJrUkR0VDY0QmQtUC15STZ3czJ1WF83MU1FYXJLLWg3OVFvTkZSQXVvUV9RSm5fek1GRjRxQldRTzJveGFJ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How powerful lasers can measure air pollution from space debris<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;C&amp;EN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1gFBVV95cUxNS0FMYU9GRVJJa3RXZlZPdnBHREZlWFY4azl2SmFFMWMwQU96eGZpU2RaQ2J5aGUtRk9hZUhydkV3R1p3R054bmJ2UWwyTkJlek1oOFAwRXdBc2M3SnpMODc5ZXY0Z1J0ekQ4WFphRi1nN213eWRubVlOVWZRWHQ3Vm1BNFVZcmFKZ21HdlZmWW9aRXJVM3FuYmpONG55cWdINGVBU2kzSWFuZ1ZTd25JWDd2QUFqR1ZfN3FZcnFfRFV2ODhtNXVXQ2h0N0o4Wko5aXEwNFhn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first time<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CBS 19 News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket fireball linked to plume of polluting lithium&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCAtmospheric pollution caused by space junk could be a huge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}