Major solar storm disrupts Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has warned of a “degraded service” as the earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.
Starlink owns about 60 per cent of the roughly 7500 satellites orbiting earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet.
Billionaire entrepreneur Musk said earlier on Saturday in a post on X that Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due to the geomagnetic storm, but were holding up so far.
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The thousands of Starlink satellites in low-earth orbit use inter-satellite laser links to pass data between one another in space at the speed of light, allowing the network to offer internet coverage around the world.
