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Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit

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157 points milgrim | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.283s | source
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milgrim ◴[21 Oct 24 14:14 UTC] No.41904412[source]▶
For some context:

The same Boeing satellite bus already experienced a major issue some years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19658800

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1. pmontra ◴[21 Oct 24 14:53 UTC] No.41904848[source]▶
I was not familiar with the term satellite bus. I kind of guessed what it is but not really. Here's the link to the Wikipedia page. There might be a link to the Boeing bus in there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_bus