{"id":144135,"date":"2026-01-14T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144135"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:00:13","slug":"chinese-risk-study-finds-space-solar-power-stations-could-accidentally-zap-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144135","title":{"rendered":"Chinese risk study finds space solar power stations could accidentally zap satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs China pushes to take the global lead in building space-based solar power stations, a new study warns that powerful lasers beaming energy back to Earth could pose serious risks to other satellites in the increasingly crowded low-Earth orbit.<br \/>\nIf these beams miss their targets \u2013 because of tracking errors or system malfunctions \u2013 they could strike nearby spacecraft, overheat solar panels or trigger electrical discharges, according to a team from the Beijing Institute of Satellite Environment&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3339829\/chinese-risk-study-finds-space-solar-power-stations-could-accidentally-zap-satellites?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs China pushes to take the global lead in building space-based solar power stations, a new study warns that powerful lasers beaming energy back&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}