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NamMedevac 70

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Posted: 09/20/22 05:56am

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Space Storms Destroy Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites, and the Problem Is About to Get Worse

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/space-storms-destroy-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-and-the-problem-is-about-to-get-worse/ar-AA1203BY?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=21ef2bffd98b4d119b2f195581366a8c

Above article from Entrepreneurial magazine news. Found on Bing news page. Hopefully Musk can solve this problem but how. No control over Sun flares.

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Wow, that's really something. I would never have thought of that, but it appears he did.

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Wow! That is much worse than rain fade.

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A little more than 1% of the total satellites affected and sounds like the kind of event Musk expected and planned for. Guess that is why it did not make more news when it actually happened.

* This post was edited 09/20/22 09:30am by BB_TX *

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The article doesn't mention that those satellites had just been launched and had not been raised to their final altitude and positions yet. None of the on station satellites have been lost to solar flares to date. In hindsight, SpaceX should have delayed the launch by a day to avoid the flares, but they chose to play the odds instead and lost.

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makes me think of some FB foderol you read and go Hmmmmmmm?

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NamMedevac 70 wrote:

Old news.

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Posted: 09/20/22 10:14am

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pianotuna wrote:

NamMedevac 70 wrote:

Old news.

^^^ This.

It's strange this suddenly became a hot news item. The destruction of the satellites was disclosed by SpaceX less than a month after the launch in early February '22..... and was reported in several media outlets like CNBC, Space.com and ArsTechnica as I recall.

If nothing else, demonstrates how lazy the mass media is.

I'm curious to see how well Starlink at Sea will perform for Royal Caribbean since they announced their entire fleet will be outfitted with Starlink by the first quarter of 2023, replacing their current satellite vendor. Got a couple of cruises booked with them in the coming months to the Caribbean. We shall see..........