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We can't save satellites but when those begin to fail, we have 20 minutes to power down things before earth itself is hit.
by guard-of-terra 12y ago
We can't save satellites but when those begin to fail, we have 20 minutes to power down things before earth itself is hit.
- XorNot 12y agoYou can save satellites - you can order them to rotate instrumentation away from the flare vector, and you can shutdown sensitive electronics or high-gain radios and the like (most satellites have many levels of shutdown for exactly this reason).