Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – SpaceX’s Elon Musk has lost dozens of satellites after being hit by a geomagnetic storm from the storm the Sun the day after the launch, which causes a satellite falls out of orbit and burned.
Satellite that is part of the project internet satellites SpaceX, Starlink. This project makes high-speed internet through thousands of satellites in outer space.
Alerts page the BBC on Thursday (10/2/2022), “storm” the sun as it was caused by a powerful explosion on the sun’s surface, spewing plasma and magnetic field up to be able to hit the Earth.
The company’s billionaire Elon Musk, said there are about 40 of 49 of the satellite from the launch last week affected the incidence of these solar storms.
“GPS onboard show the speed of the escalation and severity of the storm caused the atmospheric drag is increased up to 50% higher than during the previous launch,” said SpaceX.
SpaceX claims to have set the satellites it in “safe mode” after being hit by storm. However, the style of the atmospheric drag is too strong drag 40 satellites them.
“Events like this are a reminder that the space it’s challenging, launch satellites or astronauts into orbit problem is not easy.”said the Head of the Surveillance Space Agency of the United Kingdom Jacob Geer.
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