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Dutch_12078
Sep 20, 2022Explorer III
The article doesn't mention that those satellites had just been launched and had not been raised to their final altitude and positions yet. None of the on station satellites have been lost to solar flares to date. In hindsight, SpaceX should have delayed the launch by a day to avoid the flares, but they chose to play the odds instead and lost.
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