[pempem]

Well now that we've determined that plummet maybe isn't the right word to use, shall we discuss the fact that satellites are unexpectedly falling from the sky in yet another climate change that we had not predicted?

[mc32]

While solar phenomena influences climate, this aspect is not human induced. We have put artificial satellites up there, in earth orbit, but they are not causing solar eruptions or solar flares. We don't understand solar "climate" enough to say that it's changing (cycle frequency, amplitude, etc).

[bityard]

> We don't understand solar "climate" enough to say that it's changing (cycle frequency, amplitude, etc).

We certainly do know a fair amount about the sun's "climate": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle

The sun has an 11-year solar cycle where each cycle has a period of low and high sunspot activity and currently we are just starting Cycle 25 with a corresponding uptick of solar flare activity.

[zoomablemind]

> ...shall we discuss the fact that satellites are unexpectedly falling from the sky

Well, the falling is rather expected, it's just the rate of it is faster, than we hoped for.

Maybe in a couple of years, once at max, the rate will start decreasing, but for some cubesats this may be terminal by then.

[jtbayly]

If only we hadn't been burning fossil fuels, the sun wouldn't be punishing us like this!

[pempem]

Climate of the sun. ugh. climate of the sun obviously.

[anigbrowl]

I think this is widely predicted actually