{"id":4759,"date":"2022-02-16T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/this-is-rocket-science-micrometeorite-collision-blamed-for-nbn-satellite-internet-outage\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T07:36:31","slug":"this-is-rocket-science-micrometeorite-collision-blamed-for-nbn-satellite-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/this-is-rocket-science-micrometeorite-collision-blamed-for-nbn-satellite-internet-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is rocket science\u2019: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has been told.<\/p>\n<p>About 46,500 of NBN Co\u2019s 112,000 satellite users in regional and remote parts of Australia were left without internet between 8.30pm on 21 December and 3.20am the following morning due to the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/16\/this-is-rocket-science-micrometeorite-collision-blamed-for-nbn-satellite-internet-outage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/450fcd9132f80bbc9538aabd83a099c04c49b718\/0_289_3300_1980\/master\/3300.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2fb545e133fe5f40847a703d7e3c2ba6\" title=\"\u2018This is rocket science\u2019: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage\" \/>Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has been told.<br \/>\nAbout 46,500 of NBN Co\u2019s 112,000 satellite users in regional and remote parts of Australia were left without internet between 8.30pm on 21 December and 3.20am the following morning due to the incident.<br \/>\nSign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 46,000 regional users left without service for seven hours and more than 500 had no internet for two weeks Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing A micrometeorite slamming into a satellite was the likely cause of a seven-hour outage for NBN Co internet users in December, a Senate hearing has &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/16\/this-is-rocket-science-micrometeorite-collision-blamed-for-nbn-satellite-internet-outage\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018This is rocket science\u2019: micrometeorite collision blamed for NBN satellite internet outage<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}