truly believe our satellites could all go down at anytime due to events like this if it was major enough.

For sure. Back in may or June or 2021 a catastrophically large solar flare erupted, and Earth was like 7 days away in its orbit from getting hit

Had we been hit, basically half of the planet would have entered the pre electric era overnight

How long would that last?

I don’t know how long time it would take to return to normal. The flaring event itself is short lived, a few hours give or take. Probably decades for everything to be back to normal afterwards though

flare was hardly "HUGE" that is just clickbait.

It was X1,6 on the open ended X scale. Perhaps an X 12 could be called "Huge"

Look at this site for REAL info

https://www.solarham.net/

You are greatly exaggerating the potential effects of that flare. Also it missed by roughly seven days in the sun’s rotation not earth’s orbit. The distance earth travels in its orbit in a week is nothing compared to the size of a cme.

Okay my bad. I’m still quite sure it would have been powerful enough to fry our satellites etc

Yeah clickbait for the masses..

I'm not sure what the failure rate of satellites would have been, but yeah it's definitely possible that a bunch would have been knocked out.

Or straight from the horses mouth, swpc.noaa.gov/