What happens with excessive solar activity?

Question

Space

I always wondered: Can a powerful electromagnetic storm lead to failure of electronics, loss of data on media? After all, there were cases in which there were failures in the operation of V / H communications, again - the ISS is all in screens. Or is there enough ionosphere and nothing can break through it so strongly?

Answer 1

Theoretically - an electromagnetic storm can be. no matter how powerful. In principle, even a supernova explosion can be considered a kind of electromagnetic storm - after all, charged particles (which are part of the stellar plasma) fly apart.
In practice, solar electromagnetic storms are such that none of them could destroy life on Earth. And typical storms are safe enough for living organisms (for those who are not the same, they have already died out).
In other words, the ionosphere is stronger than existing solar storms.

Answer 2

satellites constantly storm
if the carrier is without an iron shell and sticks out of the satellite - they may disappear