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Solar storm knocks out 40 newly launched SpaceX satellites
A so-called “solar storm” destroyed at least 40 of 49 satellites in SpaceX’s “Starlink” project, the US company said on Tuesday The engineers could not run the emergency programs either. The satellites burned up in the earth’s atmosphere. The artificial celestial bodies had only been launched last Thursday by rocket. At the time there were already warnings about the effects of the solar storm. Why SpaceX did not react was initially unclear. According to experts, the incident was the largest collective loss of satellites to date as a result of a single geomagnetic event. With the “Starlink” project, the space company, in which Elon Musk is also involved, wants to establish Internet connections for remote regions on earth .
The artificial celestial bodies were thrown out of their orbit and burned up in the earth’s atmosphere.