@sundogplanets In 2022 49 starlink satellites deorbited due to a solar storm.
There are many more of them up there now...
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@sundogplanets In 2022 49 starlink satellites deorbited due to a solar storm. There are many more of them up there now... 3 comments
@sundogplanets @tony@hoyle.me.uk yes I was replying to @Tony :-) I'm not a geomag person but it raised eyebrows with some geomag college friends! |
@tony @sundogplanets they were entirely from one batch which were still in transfer orbits. They knew the storm was coming and decided to launch anyway.
1) they haven't made that mistake again! (Doh!)
2) none of the other 1000s they had in orbit at the time, were lost
Doesn't mean a major storm (Carrington?) won't kill a lot of starlinks, but you can't extrapolate from that one incident