There are more than 8,000 active satellites in orbit. By 2030, there will be more than 25,000. A single geomagnetic storm, the kind the sun produces several hundred times during a solar maximum, could cost the satellite industry $40 billion. In February 2022, a moderate storm knocked 40 freshly launched Starlink satellites out of orbit, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
The horrible winter of 2026 is behind us in New England; now we’ve moved on to the season where there’s a threat of rain basically every day. Given that, the updated Storm Radar app from The Weath [...]
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Time to get into the habit of writing "2025" instead of 2024, and the year may have just begun, but the Engadget team is already working hard for CES 2025. This weekend, many from the Engadg [...]
At the start of the month, Elon Musk announced that two of his companies — SpaceX and xAI — were merging, and would jointly launch a constellation of 1 million satellites to operate as orbital d [...]