{"id":55972,"date":"2022-02-09T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/cnn-spacex-to-lose-starlink-satellites-to-solar-storm\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T12:06:12","slug":"cnn-spacex-to-lose-starlink-satellites-to-solar-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/cnn-spacex-to-lose-starlink-satellites-to-solar-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: SpaceX to Lose Starlink Satellites to Solar Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_D00EC938-2277-BADE-F8E4-DF3744B80E34\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_0\">Up to 40 of <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2018s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm.<\/p>\n<p>A batch of 49 Starlink internet satellites were on SpaceX\u2019s latest launch on February 3, and now the company is expecting to lose most of them because they hit a space weather event known as a geomagnetic storm. This event occurs when streams of charged particles, or solar winds, emitted from the sun interact with Earth\u2019s magnetic field. The energized particles can heat up the upper atmosphere, causing it to thicken. (Yes, there is still atmosphere in areas of outer space closest to home. The Earth\u2019s atmosphere fades out over thousands of miles.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more from CNN&gt;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 40 of SpaceX\u2018s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm. A batch of 49 Starlink internet satellites were on SpaceX\u2019s latest launch on February 3, and now the company is expecting to lose most of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}