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The other more recent major event was the Halloween solar storms of 2003.

A series of solar flares and CMEs from mid-Oct to early Nov, peaking around Oct 28–29, caused wide ranging impacts -
- Power outages in Sweden
- ~59% of the Earth and Space science missions were impacted.
- Temp failure of the SOHO satellite
- Damage to the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
- Loss of ADEOS-2 satellite
- A majority of LEO satellites were temporarily lost
- Orbit changes

https://www.weather.gov/media/publications/assessments/SWstorms_assessment.pdf
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