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STEREO observed CME that turned satellite into zombie

Submit on Thursday, July 8th, 2010 22:58

Observations from NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have allowed U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists to see recent solar activity that may have produced the first casualty of the new solar cycle #24. A coronal mass ejection from 3 April 2010 apparently resulted in a critical failure on the Galaxy 15 communications satellite (a.k.a. Zombiesat).
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