Musk’s Starlink satellites disrupted by major solar storm

Starlink, a major satellite internet provider from SpaceX, experienced degraded service due to a powerful geomagnetic storm. This storm, the strongest in over two decades, is impacting various systems like navigation and power grids.

The aurora borealis, also known as the "northern lights", are seen over The Roaches near Leek, Staffordshire, Britain, May 10. REUTERS/Carl Recine

Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a “degraded service” as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.

Starlink owns around 60% of the roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet.

Musk said earlier in a post on X that Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due to the geomagnetic storm, but were holding up so far.

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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said the storm is the biggest since October 2003 and likely to persist over the weekend, posing risks to navigation systems, power grids, and satellite navigation, among other services.

The thousands of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit use inter-satellite laser links to pass data between one another in space at the speed of light, allowing the network to offer internet coverage around the world.

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