Sentences with phrase «disrupt radio communication»
The radiation was so intense that it ionized atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere for five minutes, disrupting some radio communications.
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The communications director of the UK Independence Party disrupted a radio interview with the party's leader Nigel Farage, when he was pursued to answer questions over his expenses.
These neutral hydrogen atoms might also signal the approach of solar storms — gusts in the solar wind that can disrupt satellites, radio communications, and electrical power grids.
The most powerful flare since 2006 (and the eighth largest since monitoring started in June 1996), it disrupted shortwave radio communication over Africa for up to an hour.
Airplane navigation systems, cell phone communications and credit card transactions all rely on the stable transmission of radio waves through the ionosphere, which is disrupted when particles from flares further ionize this part of the Earth's atmosphere.
Such an event may impact power grids by tripping circuit breakers, disrupt communication and satellite data collection by causing short - wave radio interference and damage orbiting satellites and their electronics.