{"id":1028,"date":"2025-08-02T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T11:07:55","slug":"out-of-space-picturing-the-big-crowded-business-of-satellite-internet-khadija-alam-rest-of-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/out-of-space-picturing-the-big-crowded-business-of-satellite-internet-khadija-alam-rest-of-world\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOut of Space: Picturing the big, crowded business of satellite internet\u201d &#8211; Khadija Alam (Rest Of World)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe lifespan of an internet satellite is short, and predestined. Because of atmospheric drag and the debris that accumulates on a low-altitude satellite, the average lifespan of a single LEO satellite is approximately five years, after which it reenters Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burns up into oblivion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to maintain service, companies like Starlink will have to continuously replenish the constellation of internet satellites orbiting our planet indefinitely\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2025\/satellites-space-based-internet\/\">https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2025\/satellites-space-based-internet\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe lifespan of an internet satellite is short, and predestined. Because of atmospheric drag and the debris that accumulates on a low-altitude satellite, the average lifespan of a single LEO satellite is approximately five years, after which it reenters Earth\u2019s atmosphere and burns up into oblivion. In order to maintain service, companies like Starlink will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}