mimblewimble, 26 days ago

@JohnBarentine I don't see what's hard to understand here. There was a wall of friggin plasma compared to the normal state of the ionosphere. The comments I am reading are like saying your car is defective because a road is flooded.

JohnBarentine, 26 days ago

@mimblewimble Evidently they didn't lose any objects in low parking orbits (unlike in 2022, which is good), but there were some service disruptions (which is not unexpected).

volkris, 26 days ago

@JohnBarentine sure it can be both.

One possibility is that there was disruption that lowered performance by a few percent. Disrupted, but not terribly so.

Another possibility is that there was significant disruption over the weekend, but after that passed, now they’re fine.

JohnBarentine, 26 days ago

@volkris It would be great if someone, either among the media or at the company, would clear that up.

reedmideke, 26 days ago

@JohnBarentine Satellites healthy (not damaged or in safe mode) but signal disrupted?

JohnBarentine, 26 days ago

@reedmideke That's what I am trying to figure out. The company's communications make it sound like nothing is wrong at all, but its statement that "on-station" satellites are fine may be telling...

Also, it's unclear whether a distinction is being made between signal interruptions and possible damage to satellites.

CenturyAvocado, 26 days ago

@JohnBarentine @reedmideke My one definitely saw disruption on Friday and Saturday overnight (UK time). I've never seen a 5+ second outage reported in the app before but over the weekend there were many!