That's actually quite impressive because most satellites just don't do anything when they die. Boeing's vehicles die with flare, and depressing regularity
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Great, more bits of dangerous junk in orbit. The fuckers should have to clear up their mess before it fucks up other satellites.
What, was it blowing a whistle?
Satellite: "But I wasn't boing anything wrong!"
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?
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.
did you know that high powered lasers are invisible to the naked without a sufficient particulate medium to pass through?
Good thing I'm wearing clothes.
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Plus “Into pieces” is rather unnecessary there.
Was it a Satellite Max?
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
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
The satellite went boing boing?
Man they are just on fire lately
~~on fire~~ rapidly decompressing
Did it happen to have a beeper?
puts on conspiracy hat
Did musk hit it with something?
Probably because it's very important that he is involved in every discussion, even if it doesn't initially involve him.
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
...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.
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.
If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Smaller components.
Your mom
Chunks, obviously
Smithereens!
To shreds you say
Regulations
Surprised Pikachu face...
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.
I see a pattern.
Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
Exactly why I wonder where our business school ethics go when it seems to me that value is only placed on what can be tied to everyone's income and profit being the 'sole' provider for it, and any Engineer's ethics being a nice thing for their own time. What would happen if we switch it up to Engineers being in charge who actually learn to make the product and the business side being the client of it rather than the other way around? Could the world be a better place? This doesn't mean every engineer or either group as a monolith is good or bad. Just that maybe in economics we can see who may value externalities even in capitalism as Adam Smith seemed to promote over just profit.
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