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Major solar storm disrupts Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
short by Pragya Swastik / on Sunday, 12 May, 2024
Elon Musk-led SpaceX's satellite arm Starlink warned of "degraded service" as Earth was battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades. A dominant player in satellite internet, Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun created auroras across the globe.
read more at Reuters