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Winwaed

@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

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Prof. Sam Lawler

@Winwaed @tony I am fully aware, I got interviewed by the New York Times about that incident :)

Winwaed

@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!

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