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Solar storms can destroy satellites with ease – a space weather expert explains the science

  • Written by Piyush Mehta, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, West Virginia University
Solar storms can destroy satellites with ease – a space weather expert explains the scienceThe Sun occasionally ejects large amounts of energy and particles into space that can smash into Earth.NASA/GSFC/SDO via WikimediaCommons

On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musk’s Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failure was a...

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