What is the greek term for alignment of moon earth sun and satellites that cause communications failure?

Question

What is the scientific term for the alignment of satellites, planets, sun, moon that causes eletromagnetic interference on Earth? Commonly known as solar outages for satellite communciation.
It is a very long word with many letters with multiple terms combined to create one word. Greek or latin

Answer 1

Syzygy?

A conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun.
If you look up at the sky and see the full moon, you’re witnessing an example of syzygy. From our point of view the sun is then on the opposite side of the sky to the moon, and so is said to be in opposition to it. The three are also in syzygy at new moon, this time with the moon and the sun next to each other in the sky—a state called conjunction.

The word appeared in English in the seventeenth century, and at first could apply only to conjunctions. It comes via late Latin from the Greek suzugia, which derives from suzugos, yoked or paired. It was not until a century later that its meaning was extended to cover opposition, in defiance of its etymology. The word also has a couple of rarer meanings in mathematics and poetry. Lovers of wordplay may know it as the shortest word in the language containing three ys.

Answer 2

I don't know if there is a specific term already. As far as I know, the interference of the sun to the magnetic fields of the earth is called iliaki kategida ΗΛΙΑΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΙΓΙΔΑ and is translated as "solar storm".
I didn't knew that the alignment can cause communication failure.

Answer 3

Interesting question. I worked in cable for many years and we always just called it a Sun Outage or Solar Interference.

Answer 4

Syzygia is the greek term and conjuction in english.
Craig gives all the explanations bespite he(to my understanding) is not greek.
I should give him the 10 points.:)


Communication failure can be created by solar storms or even plasma storms which can be result of other planetary magnetic fields, like Jupiter.