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Explorer II

Sep 20, 2022

Space Storms Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites

Space Storms Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites, and the Problem Is About to Get Worse

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/space-storms-destroy-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-and-the-problem-is-about-to-get-worse/ar-AA1203BY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21ef2bffd98b4d119b2f195581366a8c

Above article from Entrepreneurial magazine news. Found on Bing news page. Hopefully Musk can solve this problem but how. No control over Sun flares.

24 Replies

Dutch_12078
Explorer III
Sep 20, 2022
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.
BB_TX
Nomad
Sep 20, 2022
A little more than 1% of the total satellites affected and sounds like the kind of event Musk expected and planned for. Guess that is why it did not make more news when it actually happened.
bgum
Explorer
Sep 20, 2022
Wow! That is much worse than rain fade.
BobsYourUncle
Nomad
Sep 20, 2022
Wow, that's really something. I would never have thought of that, but it appears he did.

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