Spaceweather.com has a warning for folks with associations to objects in orbit around Mercury, Venus … Earth:
THE CENTENNIAL GLEISSBERG CYCLE: You’ve heard of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But what about the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle? The Gleissberg Cycle is a slow modulation of the solar cycle, which suppresses sunspot numbers every 80 to 100 years. It may have been responsible for the remarkable weakness of Solar Cycle 24 in 2012-2013. New research published in the journal Space Weather suggests that the minimum of the Gleissberg Cycle has just passed. If so, solar cycles for the next 50 years could become increasingly intense. Read the paper here.
Along with the phenomenon causing the cycle, folks like Elon Musk, sponsor of the StarLink family of satellites, should have long term concerns about those objects in orbit for which they have responsibility. A big CME could burn out the electronics of those objects.
No fingerpointing, please.
