Wild solar weather causes satellites to fall from orbit. Things will get worse.
In late 2021, operators of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm constellation noticed something troubling: satellites, which measure the magnetic field around Earth, began to sink into the atmosphere at an unusually fast rate — ten times faster than before. The change coincided with the start of the new solar cycle, and experts believe it …
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