{"687149":{"#nid":"687149","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The next frontier in space is closer than you think \u2013 welcome to the world of very low Earth orbit satellites","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere are about 15,000 satellites \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/orbit.ing-now.com\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eorbiting the Earth\u003C\/a\u003E. Most of them, like the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInternational Space Station\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EHubble Telescope\u003C\/a\u003E, reside in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\u0022 rel=\u0022nofollow noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Elow Earth orbit,\u003C\/a\u003E or LEO, which tops out at about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) above the Earth\u2019s surface.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36757","created_gmt":"2026-01-09 21:48:27","changed_gmt":"2026-01-09 21:48:27","author":"ychernet3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Yahoo","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/science\/articles\/next-frontier-space-closer-think-150000948.html?guccounter=1","dateline":{"date":"2026-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-01-04T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"660370","name":"Space"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}