SpaceX says only a small fraction of the 49 satellites it launched into orbit last week survived a geomagnetic storm. Approximately 40 Starlink satellites are expected to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere or have already done so, according to SpaceX.
SpaceX loses up to 40 satellites to geomagnetic storm after Starlink launch – arstechnica.com
Enlarge / Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth’s atmosphere. These events can cause geomagnetic storms.Getty Images | Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library
SpaceX had to ditch most of its latest batch of Starlink satellites because they were disrupted by a geomagnetic…
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