Shielding satellites from solar events costly 'black art'
Possible loss of AT&T Skynet's Telstar 401 communications satellite to a relatively mild solar event points up a little-discussed risk of commercial operations in Earth orbit, where the danger posed by an environment often hostile to delicate electronics is quickly overshadowed by the cost of...
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