So space weather is a thing, who knew?

A geomagnetic storm has just wiped out 40+ SpaceX satellites:

 

It has been a known thing for decades. Didn't you ever listen to WWV as a kid? Sheesh.

 

Of course not.

Anyhow, 40 satellites later...

 

I wouldn’t worry about space weather too much as space itself is a hoax, and is actually just a huge black sheet suspended over earth. Just don’t ask what is on the other side of the sheet.

 

Not something you hear about often so was good to learn about it.

 

It has long been a thing. This isn't the first such incident, I believe.

 

Would you mind providing a link with the previous one taking down more then satellite?

Also, if it is so common, how come the SpaceX geniuses didn't think of it?

 

Because they never watched sci-fi and did not listen to WWV.

--------------------

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 49 Starlink satellites on Thursday (Feb. 3) from NASA's historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A day later, a geomagnetic storm above Earth increased the density of the atmosphere slightly, increasing drag on the satellites and dooming most of them.

satellites from leaving safe mode to begin orbit-raising maneuvers, and up to 40 of the satellites will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere," SpaceX wrote in an update Tuesday (Feb. 8).

-------------------------

That's what you get when you push kids through the school system with participation trophies.

Kids who research shit on their phones, and not in libraries.

 

You're right, I don't remember it taking down a satelite. But there have been problems with disrupting technologies, that was what I was talking about.

 

https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...to-the-business-of.360097/page-3#post-5420362