On March 3, SpaceX launched 47 satellites of the Starling constellation aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, the unmanned ship with the name "just read the instructions" returned to earth without any problem.
It did not suffer the same fate as the previous launch that brought down 40 of the 49 satellites launched, although it was not that the solar radiation left behind destroyed the satellites, since the storm was actually a moderate storm of level G2, on a scale that reaches up to the G5
The storm itself did not affect the rest of the miles of satellites that are in orbit, what happened was that the solar storm caused the Earth's atmosphere to swell, reaching the atmospheric gases to the height at which the recently launched satellites were, they were still very low had not managed to rise to its operational orbit and this caused the satellites to rub against atmospheric gases and end up falling to earth.
The Starling satellites orbit between 340 and 550 km high, there are currently about 2,000 by the middle of this decade it is planned to put up to 12,000 into orbit, although in the next generation SpaceX hopes to reach up to 30,000 satellites, At this time this network is beginning to be operational in more and more countries and one of the last has been Ukraine where Elon Musk sent 50 terminals to guarantee internet access in the face of the Russian invasion.
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