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Starlink Project
- 19 Apr 2024
- 2 min read
Recently, several Starlink satellites were lost due to complex space weather phenomena like solar storms, which were launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in February 2022.
Starlink Project:
- It is a SpaceX project, launched in 2019, to build a broadband network with a cluster of thousands of orbiting satellites.
- The goal of the project is to create a low-cost, satellite-based broadband network that can provide global internet access.
- The Starlink satellites will be placed in an altitude range between 350 km and 1,200 km in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
- Reduced latency between a user seeking data and the server transmitting that data is the key benefit of placing satellites in LEO for space-based Internet.
- Solar Storms happen when th Sun emits large bursts of energy in the form of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. These phenomena send a stream of electrical charges and magnetic fields toward the Earth at high speed.
- One of the effects of a solar storm striking Earth is the creation of the “Northern lights” which are seen in the regions around the Arctic Circle. An adverse effect of solar storms is the disruption of satellites and other electronic means of communications.
Read More: Space Internet, Geomagnetic Storm
