{"id":230874,"date":"2026-02-08T13:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/planes-grounded-as-extreme-solar-radiation-hits-essential-flight-controls-6000-jets-affected"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T19:15:12","slug":"planes-grounded-as-extreme-solar-radiation-hits-essential-flight-controls-6000-jets-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/planes-grounded-as-extreme-solar-radiation-hits-essential-flight-controls-6000-jets-affected","title":{"rendered":"Planes grounded as extreme solar radiation hits essential flight controls. 6,000 jets affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planes-grounded-as-extreme-solar-radiation-hits-essential-flight-controls-6000-jets-affected.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The A320 involved suffered a flight-control issue that caused a sudden drop in altitude, leaving some passengers with non-life-threatening injuries. During the investigation, a vulnerability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/space-science\/solar-flares\">solar flares<\/a> emerged.<\/p>\n<p>As the aviation industry grows more automated and electronics-dependent, understanding space-weather threats is increasingly vital.<\/p>\n<p>Recent NASA studies suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/space-science\/space-weather\">space weather<\/a> is becoming more intense and frequent, with the Sun currently in a stronger-than-expected activity cycle (solar cycle 25) and potentially entering a period of elevated activity that could last decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A320 involved suffered a flight-control issue that caused a sudden drop in altitude, leaving some passengers with non-life-threatening injuries. During the investigation, a vulnerability to solar flares emerged. As the aviation industry grows more automated and electronics-dependent, understanding space-weather threats is increasingly vital. Recent NASA studies suggest that space weather is becoming more intense [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230874","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=230874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}