SpaceX said that it lost 40 Starlink satellites to a geomagnetic storm that hit Earth last week. 49 of those satellites were launched on a Falcon-9 rocket on February 3 and the geomagnetic storm hit..
A powerful eruption on the Sun has launched a solar magnetic storm towards Earth that will likely hit the planet today. According to reports, the explosion took place at the large sunspot region AR2936..