News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support SpaceX has announced that the recent mission to deploy satellites into orbit has gone awry due to a geomagnetic storm resulting in as much as 40 satellites deorbiting and burning up in the atmosphere.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink has published an update regarding the satellites launched earlier this month. The update notes that the company may lose up to 40 Starlink satellites. According to Starlink, the cluster of satellites launched on February 3 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida met with a geomagnetic storm that increased the drag.
