{"id":137594,"date":"2022-04-01T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/solar-storms-can-destroy-satellites-with-ease-expert-explains-the-science"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:25:08","slug":"solar-storms-can-destroy-satellites-with-ease-expert-explains-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/solar-storms-can-destroy-satellites-with-ease-expert-explains-the-science","title":{"rendered":"Solar storms can destroy satellites with ease expert explains the science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-storms-can-destroy-satellites-with-ease-expert-explains-the-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geomagnetic storms occur when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/topics\/space-weather\">space weather<\/a> hits and interacts with Earth. Space weather is caused by fluctuations within the sun that blast electrons, protons and other particles into space. I study the hazards space weather poses to space-based assets and how scientists can improve the models and prediction of space weather to protect against these hazards.<\/p>\n<p>When space weather reaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\">Earth<\/a>, it triggers many complicated processes that can cause a lot of trouble for anything in orbit. And engineers like me are working to better understand these risks and defend satellites against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geomagnetic storms occur when space weather hits and interacts with Earth. Space weather is caused by fluctuations within the sun that blast electrons, protons and other particles into space. I study the hazards space weather poses to space-based assets and how scientists can improve the models and prediction of space weather to protect against these [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137594","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}