Geomagnetic storm destroys 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Karma?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/8/22...magnetic-storm

[leon]

Karma, exactly Hans, however 40 is not nearly enough to help rid space of junk, destroying Deep Space imaging

Leon

[sheeny (Al)]

Unfortunately it just renders them useless. They are still there to ruin images.


Al.

[bojan]

Not karma...

They were designed for high&quick profit, not for durability.

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Not a problem. There's 40,000 more going up to replace them. Pray Elon doesn't alter the deal - I mean lose more.

[astroron (Ron)]

There are some good video's on Space weather site
of them burning up.
https://spaceweather.com/
Cheers

[N1 (Mirko)]

Musk: 0
Nature: 1

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

potential aurora tonight Kp5

[pmrid (Peter)]

Originally Posted by AG Hybrid

Not a problem. There's 40,000 more going up to replace them. Pray Elon doesn't alter the deal - I mean lose more.

It’s been a feature of the western economies for decades - Vance Packard (a forerunner to Ralph Nader) called it “planned obsolescence”. Everything manufactured is designed to fail.

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by AG Hybrid

Not a problem. There's 40,000 more going up to replace them. Pray Elon doesn't alter the deal - I mean lose more.

You comparing Elon to Darth Vader?

https://youtu.be/3D8TEJtQRhw

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

You comparing Elon to Darth Vader?

https://youtu.be/3D8TEJtQRhw

[DJT (David)]

On the plus side, solar storms apparently correlate to the solar cycle so there could be more of this coming. Roll on solar max

As I understand it, eventually orbits of the satellites will deteriorate and they will burn up anyway?