{"id":135408,"date":"2022-02-09T16:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/geomagnetic-storm-sends-40-spacex-satellites-plummeting-to-earth"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:22:20","slug":"geomagnetic-storm-sends-40-spacex-satellites-plummeting-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/geomagnetic-storm-sends-40-spacex-satellites-plummeting-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Geomagnetic storm sends 40 SpaceX satellites plummeting to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geomagnetic-storm-sends-40-spacex-satellites-plummeting-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s company launched a Falcon 9 rocket bearing the 49 satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3), but a geomagnetic storm that struck a day later sent the satellites plummeting back toward Earth, where they will burn up in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted by a geomagnetic storm on Friday,\u201d SpaceX said in a statement. \u201cPreliminary analysis show[s] the increased drag at the low altitudes prevented the satellites from leaving safe mode to begin orbit-raising maneuvers, and up to 40 of the satellites will reenter or already have reentered the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The satellites were hit by the storm just one day after launch.[\/s].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s company launched a Falcon 9 rocket bearing the 49 satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday (Feb. 3), but a geomagnetic storm that struck a day later sent the satellites plummeting back toward Earth, where they will burn up in the atmosphere. \u201cUnfortunately, the satellites deployed on Thursday were significantly impacted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}