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Knowledge of the solar wind tells us how quickly coronal mass ejections reach us, [which in turn] helps us to better forecast geomagnetic storms," Mikic notes. Insurance risks posed by geomagnetic storms include electronic equipment failure, spacecraft and satellite damages, aviation accidents, telecommunications breakdown, corrosion in oil and gas pipelines, disturbances in railway signaling systems and damage to transformers in utility grids. No satellites were damaged by that event, Speich said, but geomagnetic storms were blamed for failure of the GOES 8 weather satellite in 1994 and of a telephone communications satellite last January. |
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