The Loss of Starlink Satellites in February 2022: How Moderate Geomagnetic Storms Can Adversely Affect Assets in Low‐Earth Orbit

Abstract On 3 February 2022, SpaceX launched 49 Starlink satellites, 38 of which unexpectedly de‐orbited. Although this event was attributed to space weather, definitive causality remained elusive because space weather conditions were not extreme. In this study, we identify solar sources of the inte...

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Published in:	Space Weather
Main Authors:	Yoshita Baruah, Souvik Roy, Suvadip Sinha, Erika Palmerio, Sanchita Pal, Denny M. Oliveira, Dibyendu Nandy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2024-04-01
Subjects:	geomagnetic storms coronal mass ejections high speed streams magnetohydrodynamic modeling satellite orbital decay space weather
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1029/2023SW003716