SpaceX is providing more details about how its Starlink satellites survived a major solar storm in May without causing major service disruptions. “No satellites were lost due to the storm ...
warned on Saturday of 'degraded service' as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades. Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites ...
Related: Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit As of August 2024, there are 6,350 Starlink satellites in orbit, of which 6,290 are working, according to Astronomer ...
Spacex’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar ... storm last Friday made the atmosphere denser, which increased the drag on the Starlink satellites ...
SpaceX's new Starlink satellites produce 32 times more radio noise than their predecessors, causing concerns among astronomers about their interference with radio astronomy observations.
But in the five years since Musk’s private company, SpaceX, began launching its Starlink satellites, an escalation in radio wave emissions has made it much harder for LOFAR to make observations.
The Starlink beta has semi-officially ended, but it seems as though the global chip shortage is still limiting how many satellites are flying around the world for broadband internet access for ...
Experts say that these developments signal the need for regulations for satellite operators, just like there exist ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX said it has lost up to 40 Starlink satellites ... known as solar wind, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center. The speed and intensity of the storm caused the ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX also lost 40 Starlink satellites as a solar storm caused the atmosphere to expand, increasing the drag for the satellites and causing them to burn up before they were even used.
Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, Covid-19, and energy policy. Irfan is also a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a ...