Anonymous ID: 0ec90a Feb. 9, 2022, 3:53 a.m. No.15584677   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4690 >>4715 >>4724

Geomagnetic Storm Takes Out Dozens of SpaceX Satellites

 

SpaceX has revealed it could lose nearly all of the 49 Starlink satellites it launched last week, due to a geomagnetic storm striking Earth's outer atmosphere.

 

The phenomenon occurs when solar flares change atmospheric density - it cause the satellites to lose altitude and burn up.

 

SpaceX explains its low altitude satellites are to ensure malfunctioning ones don't become space junk, destroyed when they fail and deorbit.

 

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