Musk’s Starlink satellites were disrupted by a massive solar storm
This photo taken on September 25, 2022, shows the antenna of the Starlink satellite-based broadband system donated by US technology billionaire Elon Musk in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion Ukraine strategy.
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Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, warned Saturday of “degraded service” as Earth is hit by the biggest geomagnetic storm caused by solar activity in two decades.
Starlink owns about 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is the dominant company in the satellite internet sector.
Musk said earlier in an X post that the Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due to the geomagnetic storm, but have so far held up.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the storm was the largest since October 2003 and was likely to last into the weekend, posing risks to navigation systems, power grids and satellite navigation systems. crystal, along with other services.
Thousands of Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit use laser links between satellites to transmit data between each other in space at the speed of light, allowing the network to provide worldwide internet coverage .
