Solar storm created ‘zombie’ satellite

Published on July 15, 2010 by Space News From SpaceDaily.Com   ·   No Comments Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2010
U.S. scientists say they've identified a massive solar storm that reached Earth and caused a satellite to malfunction, turning it into a "zombie satellite." A NASA sun-watching spacecraft observed the explosion of plasma and magnetic energy, called a coronal mass ejection, on April 3, SPACE.com reported Tuesday. Charged particles in the solar storm disabled the Galaxy 15 communic

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