{"id":3886,"date":"2026-01-08T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/space-junk-could-throw-flights-into-chaos\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:04:22","slug":"space-junk-could-throw-flights-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/space-junk-could-throw-flights-into-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Space junk could throw flights into chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-01-08 13:04:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Flights could be delayed due to space junk falling from the sky.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada, warn there is a 26 per cent chance that old bits of rocket or dead satellites that have not burned could crash down on Earth &#8211; and cause airspaces to shut down.<BR><br \/>\nBenjamin Virgili Bastida, a European Space Agency system engineer, said: &#8220;Airplanes flying through the ash of a volcano is risky because of the small particles. Kind of a similar thing could happen with re-entering debris.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;What we are trying to investigate in the studies we are running is to see what is really the threshold for risk for an aircraft.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nIn November 2022, flights in Spain were thrown into chaos, as a 20-ton core stage of a Chinese Long Rocket 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere, forcing cancellations, delays, and re-routing of 300 flights.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-01-08 13:04:19 Flights could be delayed due to space junk falling from the sky. Researchers from the University of British Columbia, Canada, warn there is a 26 per cent chance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}