Big Geomagnetic Storm Wrecks 40 SpaceX Satellites, G1 Level Could Cause Power Grid Fluctuations

1- Up to 40 SpaceX high-speed internet satellites have been knocked out of orbit by a geomagnetic storm shortly after launch, but pose little threat to Earth as they burn up in the atmosphere, the company said. Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth’s upper atmosphere and increased drag on objects in low orbits. 2- The Venus impact on Feb 9th will not cause a geomagnetic storm. It can’t; Venus has no internally-generated global magnetic field. Instead, the impact will erode a small amount of atmosphere from Venus’s unprotected cloudtops.