Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by ABeeSea on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:08AM (#30269084)

Based on Tesla’s history with FSD, I don’t think giving any Musk company the benefit of the doubt is warranted.

There are two options:

1) They don’t monitor the warnings.

2) The warning doesn’t matter. Move fast and breaking things.

Both options are bad.

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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by macintux on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:21AM (#30269178)

3) The warning was missed due to <fill in the blank process failure>

4) The severity of the situation was misjudged

5) They decided to try a real-world experiment to determine whether their expectations were correct

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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by quartesixte on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:54AM (#30269418)

I suspect some combination of 4 and 5.

Seeing how the satellites were taken down not by the storm itself but the atmosphere slightly expanding to make the low-orbit to high-orbit move physically impossible, I wonder if this is something that hadn’t been encountered before, or is a known phenomenon but with unknown consequences.

Known phenomenon with unknown consequences tends to be the kind of stuff SpaceX likes to hurl headfirst into to see what breaks.

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