Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm

Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by salawat on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @09:25AM (#30272949)

Then don't balls to the wall spool up terminal production, bump out your timescale, and shift your strategy to doing more launches, and hope there is enough interest to weather things.

Frankly, I have issues with someone who defied every forseeable risk inherent in operating an LEO satcom network. There is a reason most long term comm infra tends to go to GEO... Replacing stuff in LEO because the atmo ate it is expensive.

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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by irthomasthomas on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:46AM (#30274004)

Their products don't seem too popular. E.g. Falcon heavy flew 2 missions in 2019, and 0 since then.

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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by humanwhosits on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @12:21PM (#30275226)

6 FH are scheduled for this year

https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceX/wiki/launches/manifest

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Re:Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm by mlindner on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:34PM (#30278109)

Musk wanted to cancel Falcon Heavy, and according to rumors did internally, but then Shotwell (SpaceX COO) reminded him that they'd already sold Falcon Heavy missions to the Air Force so it forced their hand. In reality it should've been canceled as it's not very profitable. What happened is that the Falcon 9 performance kept getting better and better and ate up the market segment that would have been put on to Falcon Heavy.

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