Introduction – Feb 16, 2022
With the launch of dozens of Starlink satellites, Elon Musk had planned to massively increase 5G coverage. A combination of ground based relay stations, antenna and satellites would have enabled Musk to reach areas of the globe hitherto untouched by 5G.
What has happened though will come as a relief to those who were concerned about the adverse impact of increased 5G coverage. At least for now, a space storm has knocked out as many as 40 of Musk’s recently launched Starlink satellites, which would have increased 5G’s reach across the globe.
Now many of them have been permanently rendered into space junk.
This will also come as a relief to many airlines as scores of flights were cancelled over concerns that the increased 5G would interfere with flight instruments.
No doubt technicians and scientists are working overtime to get replacement satellites aloft. That will take time however, and if this happens again we will know that the heavens have conspired against Elon Musk’s ambitions.
We hope and pray that it will be so. Ed.
Why SpaceX Lost ‘Up to 40’ Starlink Satellites in a Solar Storm
Jennifer Leman – Popular Mechanics Feb 9, 2022
SpaceX has lost nearly all of the Starlink satellites it launched last week due to a solar storm, according to a February 8 statement from the company.
On February 3, the Elon Musk-led areospace company launched 49 of its Starlink satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Shortly after launch, the satellites deployed into their initial orbit roughly 130 miles above Earth’s surface (SpaceX places them in a low orbit in the event that they suffer a malfunction and need to be de-orbited quickly). The satellites, operating normally, were scheduled to lift to a higher orbit.
A geomagnetic storm that swept over Earth on Friday had other plans.
Geomagnetic storms form when a gust of plasma-rich solar wind, also called a coronal mass ejection, sweeps through Earth’s magnetic field. These periodic storms can warm Earth’s atmosphere, increasing atmospheric density (and drag) at lower orbits. The sudden jump in atmospheric drag can be fatal for satellites in these orbits. Unable to maintain their position in orbit, they eventually burn up in reentry. According to the satellites’ onboard GPS data, “the escalation speed and severity of the storm caused atmospheric drag to increase up to 50 percent higher than during previous launches,” per SpaceX’s statement.
Once the company identified the issue, it placed the affected satellites in “safe mode,” repositioning them to fly edge-on in an effort to reduce drag. It also worked with the Space Force’s 18th Space Control Squadron—which monitors Earth’s orbit for possible collisions from their California headquarters at Vandenberg Space Force Base—and the California-based space junk tracking firm LeoLabs to scan the disabled satellites’ orbit using ground-based radar.
“Preliminary analysis show the increased drag at the low altitudes prevented the satellites from leaving safe-mode to begin orbit raising maneuvers, and up to 40 of the satellites will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere,” SpaceX said in its statement.
The disabled Starlink satellites, set to join the company’s fleet of more than 1,800 satellites already in orbit, are not a threat to nearby satellites and will burn up during reentry. While a dramatic end to the mission, it’s not a total loss for the project. SpaceX plans to add tens of thousands satellites to its constellation in an effort to improve high-speed internet access around the world.
In severe cases, space weather can interfere with the electrical systems in satellites and disable them. (That doesn’t seem to be the case here, though.) For example, a burst of cosmic radiation doomed the KickSat mission in 2014 when it reset the master clock within the thumbnail-sized satellites’ dispenser.
Space weather also poses a risk to Earth’s communication and navigation systems and can weaken the power grid. One such storm, 1859’s Carrington Event, zapped telegraph wires, sparking fires around the world. NASA and other agencies around the world monitor space weather in an effort to forecast such events and develop technology designed to better withstand them. There’s no word on whether SpaceX anticipated this issue.
It seems SpaceX’s satellites were simply in the wrong orbit at the wrong time.
Space ‘x’ – Star Trek for the goyim. All so called ‘satellite’ dishes face along the horizen – ergo ‘space’ is a nonsense. Musk (the new Richard Branson) is of the tribe as is Branson.
I did cover this in a comment the other day.
The reason for this failure is that a weak solar storm hit this launch at their optimal deployment altitude.
The Earth’s magnetic field is collapsing and this means we have less protection from solar and cosmic particles. This is why the weather is up the spout.
We are in the 3/4 peak years in this solar cycle, and we have about a 25% risk that Earth will get whacked by a big CME (Coronal Mass Ejection). This could affect part of the planet, or all the planet, wiping out all our tech and power. The late 19th century Carrington event set telegraph lines on fire, and Carrington wasn’t even a big CME.
Given that the magnetic field is falling off a cliff, the 2030s cycle will present higher risks, IF we get that far.
The magnetic poles are heading to their new locations on the present equator, and by the mid 2040s, the poles flip and the Sun will micronova. There’s going to be a big, big loss of life during this 12k cyclical event.
It is an established scientific fact that solar & cosmic particles have an effect on heart attacks (electrical disturbance) and strokes. These particles enter via the poles and the Earth’s surface, & of course, they impact on the weather and all thing that occur inside the Earth.
I hold the view that the escalating input from these particles affect sheeple mental wellbeing, and we know that all these conditions and consequences are increasing.
The elites know all about this. They don’t care about the debts, they don’t care about you. All they care about is pumping man made climate crap as a cover and to maintain public order for as long as possible.
If you haven’t started some kind of prepping, you are a xxxxing idiot! The entire food chain could be fried. We might get 36 hours notice, but you’ll only know if you follow the right sources and these sources won’t tell you, but you’ll know its coming, because they’ll be taken down. The fake news won’t tell you the real background story to the Starlink failure. Oh, China is hoarding food like crazy.
Musks operations serve only the “elite”, not the common man.
That maniacal mother-f*cker already has 1,800 5G death-ray spewing machines floating above us without our consent and to the detriment of all living things on earth?? He should be publicly flogged and shot in the face in front of his family.
Todays ely standard newspaper has as its lead story a black illegal immigrant
isiaah olugosi ran a £25 milion racket from his £450,000 home
forcing young and many underage girls into prostitution, to not all but mostly
asian men, he also rana racket where they would have to steal from shops for him.
Some folk say Muslim men were allowed to do this for years abusing hundreds of young girls
and Greville Janners jewish gangs abusied young boys and no one did a thing
so why prosecute Prince Andrew over Mrs Guffrei ?
the thing is Andrew abused many other girls at least one was aged just 13
we must get the dirty cow maxwells black book of names as many UK politicians names are on it
Busy comments–I don’t know who to not-believe most.
> so why prosecute Prince Andrew over Mrs Guffrei ?
because he’s a raper of children.
> the thing is Andrew abused many other girls at least one was aged just 13
so? are we supposed to ‘forgive’ him the older ones?
he should be strung up.
They were taken out by a DEW earth-based beam owned by the KM cabal, according to the CIA. “They do not want Musk taking control away from their hold on global communication. Musk is currently under the protection of the Alliance. He is being watched carefully (as he likes riding the fence). The DEW hit came from Europe, not from the US,” the CIA says. They hinted the attack came from around the Vatican or Lake Geneva.
Perhaps this is just a cover story.. it certainly sounds like one. The thing abour 5G, which doesn’t really exist (more 4.5G)… is that…
5G comes in a mixed back of wavelengths and on the whole is only marginally better than the the 4G variety but requires regular base stations… which is why they deploy it on top of lamp posts (cunningly disguised) every 25 feet or so, it even has trouble getting through brick and stone walls…
this sort of contradicts the usefulness of high altitude beams… doesn’t it?…particularly with all that ahem, solar interference.. so what are the mad scientists and their corporate sponsors really up to?…
quite possibly it’s all just more muskrat bulls*it…. but it could be weapon, because that’s how the clowns in uniforms designate it….
The same pathetic attempts to maintain the heliocentric model which can be disproven by any half competent 12 year old – wake the f up – Musk’s Space x and ‘satellites’ are as real as the moon ‘landings’ ….yep, just more ‘magic’ from the satanic priests.
“Satellites” that Arthur C. Clark made up for his science fiction novels? A “space storm” recently took out 40 satellites? Really? Do you guys seriously believe any of this bullcrap? With all the so called satellites, why are they putting up 5G towers everywhere?
It’s been an exhorbitantly windy day, today in Folkestone.
We’re quite used to gale-force winds on the southern coast of England but in this storm, it’s been challenging to even maintain a straight gait and the sheer ferocity of the blast from the south-west, forces you stop and fix your footing hard against the ground and lean into the tempest, streamlining yourself, lest you be carried away, like Dorothy.
Walking home with my groceries, the storm took a half dozen of those crescent-shaped, clay ridge-tiles off a roof and smashed them right down on the pavement, just a foot in front of me. I jumped and said a curse word.
Ah! To be lost to high water and hurricane. How inestimably pure.
Just for the record, and although it is a low blow and suffers terminal inflation as an insult, Space Deniers are clinically insane, and fortunate that their kin “took over the asylum”, and psychiatry has left its post, because insanity is the flag of the victorious Jews.