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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by vmception on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:57PM (#30268169)
it’s a fraction …. as long as we are using whole numbers
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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by usrusr on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:50AM (#30270078)
Those satellites are small but not infinitesimally small. So yeah, I'd say them going down in whole number units is a safe bet.
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