SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: JULY 11, 2024
SUPERSTORM TRIGGERED A MASS MIGRATION OF SATELLITES: Earth just experienced the biggest mass migration of satellites in history. On May 10, 2024, approximately 5000 spacecraft had to maneuver to maintain altitude, resisting a geomagnetic storm that was trying to pull them down. The event is described in a research paper just accepted by the “Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.”
“Most were SpaceX Starlink satellites,” says William Parker of MIT, the paper’s lead author. “Each satellite has a GNSS receiver as well as autonomous station-keeping and collision-avoidance capabilities. When they sensed the effects of the storm, thousands of the satellites made the decision to maneuver.”
The need to migrate upward was caused by a sudden increase in satellite drag. Earth’s atmosphere absorbed a huge amount of energy from the solar storm, causing it to puff up like a marshmallow held over a campfire. Tendrils of heated air reached into space and started dragging the satellites down.
“The superstorm’s peak power was 2.63 TeraWatts,” says Martin Mlynczak, who retired from NASA’s Langley Research Center a month after the storm. Before he left, he used infrared data from NASA’s TIMED spacecraft to estimate the amount of thermal energy dumped into the upper atmosphere. “It deposited enough energy to run my house for 10 million years (I average about 510 kWh per month),” he says.
Earth’s atmosphere has been heated this much before, most recently during the Halloween storms of 2003. In those days, however, the satellite population was relatively low (fewer than 1000) and there was no mass migration.
“The May 2024 geomagnetic storm was the first major storm to occur during a new paradigm in low Earth orbit satellite operations dominated by commercial small satellites,” the authors wrote in their paper.
Thanks mainly to the advent of Starlink in 2019, Earth now has almost 10,000 active satellites–ten times the number in 2003. When a fraction of them unexpectedly decide to change course all at once, satellite operators must scramble to track them, making sure they don’t collide. This creates a new and unprecedented risk for all satellites, even ones that don’t move.
It’s a problem that will only get worse in the years ahead. “Major storms are more likely throughout 2024-2025 during the peak of Solar Cycle 25,” says Parker, “and the satellite population continues to grow.”
Want to learn more? Read the original research here.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH (G1): NOAA forecasters say that minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 13-14 when a stream of solar wind is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field. The gaseous material is flowing from a northern hole in the sun’s atmosphere.
Mayan Time…
Sun/AHAU produces a Revelation with every encounter. It makes me wonder if the prophecy of “3 Days of Darkness” could be a total communications blackout. Clearly the Sun holds the power and authority to carry it out.
THE TRECENA OF OFFERING/MULUC: HEALING OUR EMOTIONS
MAYAN CALENDAR DAYKEEPER’S JOURNAL
12 Sun/AHAU Cherokee, Flower/GUN’TSI, Destiny Kin 220, Position 20
July 11, 2024, 07/11/2024
12 Sun/AHAU (Cherokee, Flower/GUN’TSI) – Day 12 of 13 of the 1 Offering/MULUC trecena
Ian Xel Lungold, 12 Sun/AHAU. Ian’s last Dream was to share his Wisdom among the Legion of Light on the other side.
Descriptions by Ian Xel Lungold (12 Sun/AHAU), wisdom and Tzolk’in calculator preserved on MayanMajix.com
Galactic Tone 12: Understanding. Twelve is a gift of great capacity of retrospection. It is this ability that allows Twelve to connect disassociated parts into a (new) functioning whole. The energy of Twelve is that which presents a new piece of understood information or accumulated experience to be applied.
Sun/AHAU: Day of the ancestors and connection to their guidance. The divine face of the sun – lord, musician, singer, dancer, and marksman. Suns are artistic, heroic athletes, visionaries with wise judgment who lead and defend the people. So much is expected from themselves and by other people that unfulfilled expectations are a certainty. An accumulation of these disappointments may lead Sun to evade responsibilities, not accept corrections and even build resentment and disdain towards others. Suns should simplify their lives to be able to rise and shine with unconditional love once again.
A GOOD DAY TO: Ask for the wisdom and continued honored memory of our ancestors.
Cherokee, Flower/GUN’TSI EK: Symbol is the Sun, place of abode of Great Spirit. The Sun creates, nurtures, and is the super communicator, the way station that relays messages and energy from other stars in the galaxy; provides energy for channeling information from the Ancestors; speaking the Living Language of Light, which ignites the consciousness in others. Gold is the color of courage and opportunity of wealth. Creative arts, master craftsman expressing divinity and wisdom through their creations. The face of the flower follows the Sun gathering the fire of creativity, illuminating harmony and balance, resonating peace and continuity within the human spirit. This is the Sign of the Chalice of the Infinite, Caldron of Creation.
[Text in italics was the primary source of inspiration for my journal. These are the sources that started my journey and they are the reference for interpretation each day. By providing the original text, I hope to offer a way to see what inspired my thoughts and by including all the aspects – allow for something more to inspire you. Mayan descriptions are those written by Ian Lungold. Cherokee descriptions came from multiple sources. Links to sources and other resources of study are offered on the Daykeeper Resources Page. Debra]
