UK must do more to prepare for "solar superstorm" once-in-a-century, according to experts.The Government has been urged by the Royal Academy of Engineering to build the Space Weather British Council to deal with the big blow radiation from the sun.
Such an explosion can cause fainting, knock out one of the 10 satellites and disrupt GPS and aircraft systems.
Statistically, a solar superstorm is likely to occur every 100 to 200 years.
Despite the weather events occur regularly sun, the Earth has not experienced a superstorm from the early space age.
The last true superstorm, known as the Carrington event occurred in 1859, when the Earth was hit by a wave of energetic particles as a result of a large solar flare.
Induced currents caused by an explosion sends sparks flying from telegraph poles and fire. Around the world, the night sky lit by magnificent aurora display.
Solar flares to light up the night sky with a magnificent aurora shows solar storm light up the night sky with aurora display
But at that time there was no satellite in orbit or in the path of the particle sensitive microchip.
Now experts warn that other solar superstorm Carrington-scale event is "inevitable" and Britain must be ready, even if the effects should not be a disaster.
Professor Paul Cannon, who led the working group of the Academy of extreme solar time, said: "Our message is: do not panic, but be prepared - a solar superstorm would happen one day, and we must be ready for it."
With SAT-NAV may be rendered useless in this case, the advice to motorists is "make sure you continue to keep a map in the car."
Space engineer Keith Ryden, at the University of Surrey, the other members of the working group, said the airline would stop failing microchip, but added: "We are not talking about a plane falling from the sky".
A solar superstorm would prove lethal to the Apollo astronauts is what happened when they were on the moon.
When an old satellite called the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) provides approximately 15 minutes of warning coronal mass ejection - a large cloud of charged plasma particles cause the most damage during a solar storm.
Scientists are worried about what will happen if Ace fails. Replacement Ace, called Discover, expected to be launched by the U.S. space agency NASA in 2014.
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