{"id":32942,"date":"2023-03-31T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/31\/plymouth-scientist-imogen-napper-why-i-joined-battle-to-beat-space-junk\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T12:00:48","slug":"plymouth-scientist-imogen-napper-why-i-joined-battle-to-beat-space-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=32942","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth scientist Imogen Napper: Why I joined battle to beat space junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Increasing amounts of debris orbiting Earth have prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/news\/scientists-call-for-global-push-to-eliminate-space-debris\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">a call by scientists for an international agreement to limit the growth of space junk.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Without it, they fear large parts of Earth&#8217;s orbit will become unusable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Dr Imogen Napper of the University of Plymouth explains why she has joined the battle to put the brakes on space junk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video Journalist: Jonathan Morris<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Follow BBC News South West on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSpotlight\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbcspotlight\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bbcspotlight\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">. Send your story ideas to <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/mailto:spotlight@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">spotlight@bbc.co.uk<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-jersey-65110623?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Increasing amounts of debris orbiting Earth have prompted a call by scientists for an international agreement to limit the growth of space junk. Without it, they fear large parts &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}