Could the owner of the dead satellites please come pick them up? Thank you.
Friday’s solar storm is a sign of what is to come in the next few years. The sun operates on 11-year cycles, going between periods of calm and periods of intense storms. We’re currently in a milder phase of the sun’s activity, but events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections will ramp up, likely peaking around 2025. During “solar maximum,” storms like this recent one will occur hundreds of times over just a few years.
NOAA measures geomagnetic storms on a severity scale of G1 to G5. The agency issued a warning for a “likely” geomagnetic storm of G1 to G2 the day before SpaceX launched its 49 satellites. Given this warning, and the fact that the potential impacts of storms on orbits are pretty well known, some experts find it peculiar that SpaceX would not have accounted for this possibility in its launch plans.
“It’s a bit of a surprise,” Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, toldSolar storms of this magnitude are fairly common, but to have so many satellites succumb at once is unusual.
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