Major solar storms bombarded the Earth has the ability to disable satellites and high frequency wave radio, but airlines and telecommunications companies that serve Alaskans do not expect major problems.
Representatives said the Fairbanks International Airport Ted Stevens Airport Marina will not be canceled or diverted flights because of the storm that struck on Sunday and is expected to cause geomagnetic storms in the coming days.
Alaska Airlines has not seen any problems, according to Bobby Egan, director of public relations at Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. Egan said that its aircraft have redundant systems in place that anything happen to the platforms, and the airline to take preventive measures such as increasing the distance between the planes to minimize the potential for accidents.
"We will continue to monitor the situation and rely on different services, such as meteorological services for international air traffic control and air," said Egan.
GCI, which provides voice, video and data throughout the State of Alaska, do not wait to see the service is disabled, but is ready if it should happen, according to spokesman David Morris. The company, which uses three communication satellites and six for video transfer services, has a backup plan, which could be extended to other satellites, if necessary. Morris said he usually can be restored to service three or four hours.
"We left with satellite communications, and see no problem. When you have a magnetic fluctuations that can cause all sorts of problems," said Morris.
"It may have an impact on terrestrial communications - this really depends on what happens to the vehicle may be a non-event and can be catastrophic.".
Bush communities are more likely to take place.
"Cable, telephone and Internet services to rural Alaska - if there is an impact on the satellite, and you can feel," said Morris.
A spokesman for Alaska Communications Heather Cavanaugh follow solar activity does not expect any impact on the Internet that we or other wireless services at this time.
Solar storm is the result of the large solar flare which occurred on Thursday, according to Chuck Deehr, predictor of the aurora and professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute 'geophysicists.
"If you think of the sun as a basketball in the middle of a football field, and the earth is the size of a pea on the end zone. What happens to one of the explosions in space ejecta and the shock is passing through the space between the planets. The first match and we even explosions in the Earth's magnetic field, "said Deehr.
These charged particles - electrons and protons - the creation of the solar magnetic field. These links, in some cases with the Earth's magnetic field and make it essentially a huge generator.
"It generates electricity that travels along magnetic field lines towards Earth's atmosphere in a ring around the poles. These base flow of streams that produce the aurora, as electrons and protons that make strike to the power nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere and make it shine, "said Deehr.
Deehr said this electrical activity also causes the ionosphere to absorb waves of high frequency radio, which can cause problems for aircraft.
"What happens is that the aircraft can not communicate, and high frequency applications of communications for the aircraft," said Deehr.
Deehr said satellites can be affected when exposed equipment sensitive to large amounts of charged particles, but is built to take it.
He said that "people do not put up there because expensive satellite, the solar storm reached first. If this occurs, you recover. There are different ways to take care of this problem, but I cut some satellite communications and some operations in space, "said Deehr.
Twilight is considered due to geomagnetic storms in each of the poles, and can be seen to the south of Chicago in the Northern Hemisphere. Deehr said the auroral zone in the southern hemisphere is largely uninhabited, but you can see in the Aurora and South Tasmania and New Zealand.
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