Topic: STEREO Reveals Solar Storm Related to Failure Aboard Communications Satellite

[sam]

Observations from NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed Naval Research Laboratory scientists to see recent solar activity that may have produced the first casualty of the new solar cycle #24. A coronal mass ejection from April 3, 2010 apparently resulted in a critical failure on the Galaxy 15 communications satellite, as reported by Space News on April 20.

http://www.physorg.com/news197743405.html

[Clive]

That's knocked 10 years off its lifespan if they can't fix it which I suspect would prove too difficult unless it's brought back to Earth.