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Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit
(spacenews.com)
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milgrim
| 3 comments |
21 Oct 24 14:09 UTC
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ThrowawayTestr
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21 Oct 24 14:38 UTC
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How does a satellite break up in orbit? Was it struck by something?
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milgrim
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21 Oct 24 14:45 UTC
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The satellite here was using the same Boeing bus:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/04/new-video-of-intelsa...
So something similar might have happened here.
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dylan604
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21 Oct 24 15:36 UTC
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Waiting for a leak of emails where engineers expressed concerns on the design/elements and management approved anyways.
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Wow, these companies really are replicating NASA management
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