Loading ...Not for light browsing if you are actually interested in the sun’s effect on our weather though. It is complex stuff with many unknowns but as it isn’t a government website, and as AI is not involved, these unknowns are freely admitted to.
On goldie’s site the starlink losses intrigued me. The eventual plan is for 42,000 satellites, each weighing 1,760lbs, which will last five years in orbit – that means at saturation over 8,000 satelites will burn up every year. And then there is the space weather problem. If you think earthly forecasts are bad, the data set for solar wind, which was only discovered 70 years ago, is sparse so expect more surprises like this:
https://www.space.com/satellites-falling-off-sky-solar-weather
SpaceX risk factor?