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We’ve only been sending craft into space for a little over 50 years. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. My point? We do not have enough data to know whether the space environment our satellites have experienced since the dawn of the Space Age is normal, a relatively quiet period, or if we're in the middle of a particularly active period for the Sun and its effects on our near-space environment.
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Johnson, L. (2013). 3 Solar Storms. In: Sky Alert!. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1830-6_5
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