Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
lunar17@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure it was a Comm satellite for the world’s tensest area, which is about to go to war.
who would have ASAT capability at GEO?
how could it be launched to GEO undetected?
Zron@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Is this a trick question? Cause you might as well be asking a 1600s peasant how to develop film.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 months ago
You burn a witch and pray.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Instructions Unclear : gave my wife Chlamydia.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 months ago
China has anti geosync capability.