Satellite infrastructure could be in trouble due to the upcoming storm with the Sun.
At the 36th Small Satellite Conference in Utah this week, a space weather expert said that whatever you have experienced in the past two years doesn't matter. The past two years won't apply in the next five years.
The February solar storm that killed off a bunch of then-newly-launched SpaceX Starlink satellites was just the first in a long line of storms.
She said that the storm was in the catalog. It's not a big storm.
The new solar storm cycle comes after an 11-year era that was relatively mild, and in which tons more satellites were launched than ever before. Satellite technicians may not be ready for the storms.
The latest cycle is higher than expected.
Things are crazy at the start of the year. "We've had a solar flare almost every week." At this point, we are way beyond where we predicted.
It's a frightening situation, but we're not quite there yet.
Those who operate satellites will get a crash course in how to deal with solar storms.
New challenges for smallsats are created by increased solar activity.
There are more satellite stuff from Russian space junk.
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