After Feb. 3 Solar Flare Event, Over 40 Space-X-Deployed Mini-Satellites Are Fried/Disabled, And Burn Up Over Puerto Rico...

This video at right is running at 2X speed. But I gather the hits just keep coming for Mr. Musk.

Last week we revealed that he failed to account for the gentle tug of the Asteriod Belt's gravity, on his red roadster. So, it will -- instead of hitting Mars in a thousand or so years. . . likely hit Venus or the Sun, in about a million or more years. As a dead stick hunk of metal, it cannot fire any course correcting engine, to right itself. So it is now a derelict. As were these 40 or so recently launched mini-satellites, after suffering a circuit frying solar flare event, on February 3. . . whilst tracking in, toward their higher orbits. But they too went dead stick, and are burning up in the atmosphere, by the dozens.

. . .A camera in Añasco, Puerto Rico, captured the footage around 2:40 a.m. AST (1:40 a.m. EST) on the morning of February 7. The camera is part of a network operated by Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe (SAC), a non-profit organization composed of professionals, students, and community members with an interest in astronomy.

The video “shows two objects appearing about one minute apart, both reentering and fragmenting,” Marco Langbroek, a satellite expert from Leiden University, explained in a blog post. The second object, he said, was particularly “spectacular,” adding that the two objects could belong to a single object that broke up earlier or two separate objects that were close together in the same orbital plane. . . .

A geomagnetic storm is being blamed for the loss of 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites launched from Kennedy Space Center on February 3. The inclement space weather caused the “atmosphere to warm and atmospheric density at our low deployment altitudes to increase,” preventing the satellites from ascending to their operational orbits, according to SpaceX. The company said 40 of the 49 satellites launched to space “will reenter or already have reentered the Earth’s atmosphere,” and that the satellites will disintegrate upon atmospheric reentry. . . .

Well. . . space is. . . hard. It does not cooperate. That's the lesson here. . . But we will smile just the same, at the gentle tug of various shepherd moons' gravitational forces -- correcting all our orbits, little by little. . . . Onward.

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