Increased solar activity is posing a risk to satellites in Earth's orbit.
International satellite services firm Intelsat has lost control of one of its satellites after it was presumably disabled by space weather.
Intelsat is attempting to regain control of the Galaxy 15 broadcast satellite after a disruption on Friday . Intelsat said that a geomagnetic storm likely"knocked out onboard electronics needed to communicate with the satellite," according to a"The satellite is otherwise operating nominally, keeping Earth pointing with all payload operations nominal," Intelsat spokesperson Melissa Longo said in the report.
Galaxy 15 operates in a geostationary orbit at an inclination of 133 degrees west, providing media coverage to the Americas,This isn't the first time that Intelsat has lost control of Galaxy 15. In 2010, the company lost contact with the satellite before it finally began accepting commands from Intelsat's control center after its batteries fully drained and prompted a reset.on Aug. 16 about a category G3 geomagnetic storm, writing that"impacts to our technology from a G3 storm are usually minimal." The storm was powerful enough to generate
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