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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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Did the front fall off?
I guess space is technically out of the environment.
They thought it did … so they tried turning it off then on again … and it exploded.
“Did it pass the smoke test?”
“Kinda… There’s no smoke, anyway…”
That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years ago.
Not my fault it’s still relevant.
You should tow it out of the environment or something.
Lol re tard
Absolutely devistating.
It’s roughly equivalent to “something something pilot’s balls” in the comments of a video of an aircraft.
A joke that’s been absolutely beaten to death years ago, but people just will not accept it’s run it’s course.
This is slightly concerning. Satellites don’t tend to explode on their own, but it is a Boeing design with a history of leaky propulsion, so who knows?
Sure it was a Comm satellite for the world’s tensest area, which is about to go to bigger war.
who would have ASAT capability at GEO?
how could it be launched to GEO undetected?
If you’re a government, you can pretty much put anything in a rocket fairing and call it a reconnaissance satellite.
The only warning that actually has to be given is that a rocket is being launched, so you don’t accidentally trigger WW3 by setting off launch detection satellites without warning. After it’s in space, no one can really tell what was in the fairing. Could be a spy satellite, could be navigation. Could just be a box with a bunch of little rockets in it, designed to slam into whatever you want at ridiculous speed.
But it’s way more likely that this was just Boeing having a tiny leak in a propellant tank, or a bad thruster and as soon as the concentration of propellant and oxidizer got high enough, it triggered a detonation. They certainly have a history of not leak testing their shit: airplanes falling apart, space capsules with leaky thrusters, and now a blown up satellite point more towards incompetence than malice.
China has anti geosync capability.
Is this a trick question? Cause you might as well be asking a 1600s peasant how to develop film.
You burn a witch and pray.
Instructions Unclear : gave my wife Chlamydia.
I’m not really into the stock market, but I would not buy Boeing at the moment.
Now would be the best time to do it
Assuming it bounces back up
If it doesn’t do it on its own, one of 2 things will happen:
- They get bought out, which almost always results in a bump.
- The government bails them out, which is an even bigger bump.
Their vehicles don’t, so i wouldn’t hold my breath
The doors pop off midflight, now would the best time to hold your breath.
Unless it’s a dead cat moment :)
I don’t think government will let the company fold. The stock will go up not in the short term but over 10-15 years it will surely fly.
Having said than enron is still in the back of the mind.
I dunno, I think they could still surprise us with new ways to fuck up.
It was probably an emergency exit hatch for the magic rocket gas.
Great, more bits of dangerous junk in orbit. The fuckers should have to clear up their mess before it fucks up other satellites.
How did it break up? I wasn’t aware that Boeing was determined to be a fault in the build process.
Yeah fair point. Boeing has a degraded reputation these days but at the mo we don’t know why it broke up. Probably never will. I’m kinda going on Occam’s razor here.
Occam’s razor
We should have captured that thing when he dropped it. It’s just going to keep causing trouble up there.
Circunstancial evidence points to Boeing being a failed company.
I didn’t argue if they were a failed company. Been that way a long time IMO.
This is actually a real problem more so in this case than most. There’s an awful lot of satellites in low Earth orbit, altitude of a few hundred to several hundred kilometers. Atmospheric drag still exists here a little bit, and thus space junk will reenter and burn up in years or decades.
This satellite was in geostationary orbit, at an altitude of about 36,000 km. Debris up there can take hundreds of years to come down. Geostationary is a special altitude where the satellite orbits at exactly the same rate as the Earth spins. That means that a fixed dish on Earth will always point at the satellite without needing to move or track. So there’s just one narrow orbital ring around the equator for that. That ring is not a place we want space junk to be, because if it gets too hazardous for satellites in GEO that basically removes our capability as a species to use fixed satellite dishes for anything. And that problem won’t go away for centuries.
🎶 It’s not the best choice it’s Spacers Choice!🎶
It was probably a whistleblower satellite.
That satellite was about to reveal company secrets
The secret is that Boeing is run by criminally careless assholes. Wait, that’s not a secret.
RIP
If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Regulations
Parts
Chunks, obviously
Smithereens!
To shreds you say
Football isn’t a game, kid
Smaller components.
Your mom
I’m honestly happy to see that it just had a fuel malfunction instead of the implication of an outside cause…
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
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.
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”
puts on conspiracy hat
Did musk hit it with something?
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
Doubtful. Dude ain’t got no ups.
Probably because it’s very important that he is involved in every discussion, even if it doesn’t initially involve him.
Musk probably hit it with his signature offensive odor
Satellite: “But I wasn’t boing anything wrong!”
It was the window seal.
The satellite went boing boing?
No, not double boing. It went triple boing.
That’s not good. —Subtitle
