How solar storms can destroy satellites with ease

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How solar storms can destroy satellites with ease

23 April 2022

In February, most of a batch of newly launched Starlink satellites reentered after a solar storm. Piyush Mehta explains how an increasingly active Sun poses a range of threats to the ever-growing population of satellites in orbit.

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