Extreme solar activities are causing satellites to fall off their orbits - Interesting Engineering

In the last few years, a strange phenomenon that can be attributed to the sun's mood swings has been making satellites fall out of their orbits at increasingly alarming rates.

It's a well-known fact that satellites that orbit close to Earth are subjected to the drag of the residual atmosphere, which gradually slows the spacecraft and eventually makes them fall back to the … [+2747 chars]

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