T he night sky glows green and purple, the auroras ripple like God Himself painting across the heavens— and somewhere down below, your drone starts losing GPS lock mid-mission. It’s beautiful chaos. And right now, it’s happening a lot. We’re in the middle of one of the most intense geomagnetic stretches in recent memory. The Kp Index, the global gauge of magnetic mayhem, has been spiking off the charts. While photographers chase the northern lights, drone operators like us ar