This is how a solar storm destroyed Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites

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In February, one of the worst possibilities came true for astronomers and caused a massive space tragedy. Thankfully, no lives were lost, but it sure added up to massive costs in terms of damage caused aside from, of course, leaving the people concerned with bruised egos, if not total humiliation. The tragedy being referred to happened when as many as 49 satellites of Elon Musk led SpaceX company were destroyed in the atmosphere by space weather. It was caused after a geomagnetic storm disrupted the Earth’s atmosphere causing most of the satellites to burn up in the atmosphere within a few days of their launch. The event was caused by the Sun shooting out energy particles into space and unfortunately, Earth was in the path. When these particles hit Earth's atmosphere they caused a geomagnetic storm. In effect, the satellites, which were still in the process of trying to reach higher orbits were hit by the storm and their rockets were just not strong enough to boost them higher and were soon enough dragged down to their doom, eventually burning up in lower atmsophere.

When the atmosphere absorbs excess energy from solar storms, it raises the temperature and expands upward, which resultantly increases the density of the thermosphere. Higher the density – more the drag, which can cause problems for satellites trying to reach higher orbits. And this is exactly what happened to the SpaceX satellites last month. The satellites couldn’t bear the excess drag and slowly started falling towards the Earth and during the process burned up in the atmosphere.

Well, this is just the one hazard that magnetic storms pose. Besides this, an increase in the high energy electrons can penetrate the shielding on a spacecraft and can damage