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GEOMAGNETIC STORM KILLS 40 OF SPACEX’S STARLINK SATELLITES

Futurism – The Byte

By Tony Tran – February 9, 2022

Doomed Satellites

Sorry, Elon: a solar storm killed a bunch of Starlink satellites that SpaceX launched into orbit last week. 

The 49 satellites were launched on February 3, according to a SpaceX update. Unfortunately, a geomagnetic storm had recently hit. This increased the density of Earth’s atmosphere, and with it the drag on the satellites, dooming 40 of them to deorbit. 

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