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Starlink satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned Sat of "degraded service" as Earth is havoc by our Sun as been battered by biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.

Starlink owns around 60% of roughly 7,500 satellites orbiting Earth and is a dominant player in satellite internet. Musk earlier said in a post on X Starlink satellites were under a lot of pressure due to the geomagnetic storm, but were holding up so far.

U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration has said storm is biggest since October 2003 & likely to persist over the weekend, posing risks to navigation systems, power grids, satellite navigation, among other services.

Thousands of Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit use inter-satellite laser links to Pass data between one another in space @speed of light, don't allow the network to internet coverage around the world is been hijack be Our Sun solar.

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