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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by Victerius on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:26PM (#30267924)
SpaceX should build a satellite picker satellite to collect their dysfunctional Starlink satellites and bring them back on Earth. They could study their vulnerabilities and apply the lessons learned to shield future Starlink satellites against solar storms.
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by nmstoker on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:31PM (#30267964)
It is not that the satellites were insufficiently shielded against solar storms, it's that the atmosphere was impacted and thus their tactic of low Earth orbit didn't work at this precise moment.
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by oxplot on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:28PM (#30267948)
They are building that - it’s called Starship and one of the configurations will be a cargo ship with a bay and an arm that can pick stuff up and bring them back.
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by HWR_14 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:32PM (#30267968)
The press release implies that the issue is known. They entered a safe mode just after launch, and had not yet reached an orbit from which they were able to successfully leave safe mode.
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by bagels on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:27PM (#30268400)
A complete waste of resources. Cheaper just to send more of them up there. They know what caused these to come down.
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by mlindner on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @01:10AM (#30269503)
You apparently did not read the article as the solar storm did not in fact knock out any satellites.
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