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A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
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I did read about this yesterday, and as far as I know the name of the sat is intelsat 33e and its for communication purposes. I’m curious to know what really happen, how it broke.
Boeing: outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer and so on and still has the shamelessness of appearing surprised at the shit quality and reliability they deliver
Sounds like that case of the sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-contracted killing in China that one time
Hitman walk into a bar
“ow”
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
There’s not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It’s a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
However, the decay is horrible (or non-existant).
Depending on how many pieces it broke into that slot in the Geobelt is probably going to be unusable for years or decades.
Wouldn’t it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites…? Exploding “into pieces” seems downright SOP to me.
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If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Smaller components.
Your mom
Regulations
Chunks, obviously
Smithereens!
To shreds you say
Football isn’t a game, kid
Parts
J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!
The YHVH cosmic canons
Boeing killed John Barnett.
True? I think so. Off-topic? Also true.
This is a story about Being. How could it be off topic?
Aren’t they all though?
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BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT
It was the window seal.
did you know that high powered lasers are invisible to the naked eye without a sufficient particulate medium to pass through?
Good thing I’m wearing clothes.
Wow, Boeing keeps finding new and interesting ways to be incompetent. They seriously need their entire C-suite replaced with engineering types.
The saddest thing about that is they mostly are.
Business majors are the office grunts and middle managers of corporatism. Capital interests are more than aware that business degrees are basically adult daycares, and prefer engineering or law degrees for C-levels in industry.
I saw an interview with Jack Ma (I think) where he said his job isn’t to be the smartest at the job. His job is to find the smart people and make sure they work together. I think that may be what’s happening here. Leadership is incapable of holding the engineers accountable and making sure they follow all safety protocols. Whether that is incompetence or malice I’m sure we’ll never know for sure.
For Boeing it is absolutely known to be malice. They don’t “fail” to hold the engineers accountable. They push out the engineers that want to follow safety protocols and it is well documented.
To be fair this satellite was built in 2016.
That’s after the merger.
Sorry, I just bought several Boeing stocks at the time they didn’t kill anyone yet, and now they have to do all that stuff to not let me out with a profit
Man they are just on fire lately
firerapidly decompressingLol I believe it would be rapid uncontrolled oxidation
Not in space, though?
Dude your mom’s not in space
I’m honestly happy to see that it just had a fuel malfunction instead of the implication of an outside cause…
That was a previous satellite. This one appears to still be unknown if I’m not mistaken.
Makes me wonder if we have some Kessler Syndrome on our hands… 👀👀👀
Probably not. Anyway.
Yeah, blowing up satellites and cutting undersea internet cables would be (a short) prelude to world war III.
Nah it was both
I think it would take a lot longer than you expect with those shenanigans, but its still not good yeah.
aliens
…was designed and manufactured by Boeing Space Systems and launched in 2016. It provided broadband services, including internet and phone communication services, to parts of Europe, Africa, and most of Asia.
IS-33e was the second satellite to be launched as part of Boeing’s “next generation” EpicNG platform. The first, dubbed IS-29e, failed due to a propulsion system fuel leak. Intelsat declared the satellite a total loss in April 2019, later attributing it to either a micrometeoroid strike or solar weather activity.
What caused IS-33e to break up in orbit remains unclear, however. Intesalt officials did observe that it was using far more fuel than it should be to maintain its orbit shortly after launching eight years ago, shaving off 3.5 years of its 15-year lifetime.
Could be a coincidence, but I feel “Boeing leaks” approaching “Samsung exploding” levels of memification (where they had washers, phones and some other things all exploding, and the look was not great).
Samsung shook the meme off, but I feel like Boeing will have a harder time.
Samsung makes consumer grade products that are “easily” replaced or fixed. Boeing makes shit for the US military, and they will 100% get what’s coming to them when a Boeing military project spontaneously combusts.
Go look up what Samsung started out selling. They make a ton of military shit too just mostly for their own country.
Samsung’s military shit did not explode, their main sources of revenue do not involve the military anymore, and the reason for the explosion was identified and resolved.
Boeing, however, have multiple faults in fields that do deal with the military, this doesn’t end well.
Samsung’s military shit did not explode
Well I should hope its ordnance did. Lol
I do sort of feel that Samsung got a bit of a bad rep for their phones exploding because it wasn’t really their fault. The company that made the batteries took shortcuts in the manufacturing process and that’s what caused the fires. If they had followed the instructions Samsung had given them they would have been okay.
Although equally the company wouldn’t have felt the need to take shortcuts if Samsung had made the batteries to a standard design.
