http://www.dxal.net/solar-storm-pictures/ Health, Finance, Science and Technology! Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.dxal.net/solar-storm-pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-10538 admin Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:30:05 +0000 http://www.dxal.net/?p=426#comment-10538 A solar storm that smashed into Earth on April 5 went largely unnoticed by most of us down here on the planet, but a group of engineers at satellite maker Orbital Sciences Corp. have been thinking about it ever since. That's the day Galaxy 15, one of their satellites owned by Intelsat, went radio silent. The satellite is still functioning, going about its daily chores of relaying signals around the globe, but Galaxy 15 is ignoring all commands from handlers on Earth, leading engineers to dub the renegade satellite a "zombiesat." A solar storm that smashed into Earth on April 5 went largely unnoticed by most of us down here on the planet, but a group of engineers at satellite maker Orbital Sciences Corp. have been thinking about it ever since. That’s the day Galaxy 15, one of their satellites owned by Intelsat, went radio silent. The satellite is still functioning, going about its daily chores of relaying signals around the globe, but Galaxy 15 is ignoring all commands from handlers on Earth, leading engineers to dub the renegade satellite a “zombiesat.”

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