Sun Outages

There is sun outages currently causing cable TV disruptions.

A sun outage is due to the sun's radiation overwhelming the satellite signal.

Sun outages manifest as snowy and noisy picture, or a complete loss of signal.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has forecasted there would be Sun Outages from March 4, 2012 to March 18, 2012.

Satellite reception will experience daily outages and will last up to 15 minutes.



StarHub and SingTel TV will be disrupted by sun outages that occurs twice a year.

Channels transmitted by satellites that orbit between the sun and their receiving stations will be disrupted.

2012 is the next peaking of the sun’s solar cycle.

Health scientists said so long as you don't get yourself too overexposed there's really nothing to worry about.

In fact the sun is helpful in the activation of vitamin D.