{"id":47672,"date":"2026-09-23T20:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47672"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:31:01","slug":"weve-turned-starlink-into-a-planetary-barometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47672","title":{"rendered":"WE&#8217;VE TURNED STARLINK INTO A PLANETARY BAROMETER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/?tab=news\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/og_preview.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweather.com\/?tab=news\">Spaceweather.com &#8211; realtime news about the Sun-Earth environment<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">neat idea; uses the published &#8220;drag&#8221; value on starlink satellites as a proxy for air pressure at 480km up; these satellites will fall up to 100m\/day<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-1024x483.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47676\" style=\"width:567px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-1024x483.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-1226x579.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24-675x319.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starlink-satellite-drag-falling-per-day-2026-09-23_20-29-24.jpg 1532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar flares, geomagnetic storms, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids. Source: Spaceweather.com &#8211; realtime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47677,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47672\/revisions\/47677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}