Elon Musk's SpaceX company lost tens of millions of dollars earlier this year when a "solar destruction event" destroyed 38 of their Starlink satellites.At the time, the tech company had just launched 49 satellites into space from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
The low-latency internet satellites were launched without incident to begin with. However, a wave of solar particles and radiation swept over the Earth at the same time.READ MORE: Elon Musk's college girlfriend makes £144k flogging photos and gifts he gave herThe wave, which was the product of an explosion on the sun's surface known as a solar flare, reached our planet, heating our atmosphere and raising the density of the air near where the satellites were.It caused 38 of the satellites to sink through the atmosphere, before burning up at thousands of miles per hour.The satellites had been designed to raise themselves, but the atmospheric drag stopped that from happening.
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