Geomagnetic Storm Knocks Satellites Out of Sky: Perhaps someone doesn't want Mr. Musk to succeed, and that someone has access to some sophisticated technology and is willing to use it. It could be another private competitor, a nation-state or non-state actor with much invested in space... - Conspiracies

Geomagnetic Storm Knocks Satellites Out of Sky: Perhaps someone doesn't want Mr. Musk to succeed, and that someone has access to some sophisticated technology and is willing to use it. It could be another private competitor, a nation-state or non-state actor with much invested in space... (gizadeathstar.com)

posted 2 years ago by axolotl_peyotl 2 years ago by axolotl_peyotl +11 / -3

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– Yakuza 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

But that will make them too unreliable for regular work at orbit, magnetic storms are not the rare thing at all.

The idea with Starlink sats being cheap is that he's just going to keep launching new sats constantly to replace the broken ones, forever. It keeps SpaceX funded and launch "cadence" high.

But yeah if we start seeing more downtime due to "magnetic storms", they'll have to rethink their redundancy model.

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