'That is a drag,' NOAA's Bill Murtagh said.
"Space weather affects satellites in different ways," Murtagh said."We can have energetic particles that will penetrate your satellite and cause single event upsets or single event effects. Or it can create a charging environment or a static discharge can occur and that can be very problematic to satellites."
"It's been very quiet for the last two to three years. But over the last year, we're starting to ramp up down to the next maximum. The. So we're seeing increased space weather activity," Murtagh said.
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