A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
Jack Welch is up there with the guy who invented leaded gasoline and the chemicals that put holes in the ozone.
Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
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kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m honestly happy to see that it just had a fuel malfunction instead of the implication of an outside cause…
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 it hands…
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah, blowing up satellites and cutting undersea internet cables would be (a short) prelude to world war III.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it would take a lot longer than you expect with those shenanigans, but its still not good yeah.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah it was both
AsudoxDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
aliens
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Wow, Boeing keeps finding new and interesting ways to be incompetent. They seriously need their entire C-suite replaced with engineering types.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair this satellite was built in 2016.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
That’s after the merger.
Toofpic@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Sorry, I just bought several Boeing stocks at the time they didn’t kill anyone yet, and now they have to do all that stuff to not let me out with a profit
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
The saddest thing about that is they mostly are.
Business majors are the office grunts and middle managers of corporatism. Capital interests are more than aware that business degrees are basically adult daycares, and prefer engineering degrees for C-levels in industry.
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I saw an interview with Jack Ma (I think) where he said his job isn’t to be the smartest at the job. His job is to find the smart people and make sure they work together. I think that may be what’s happening here. Leadership is incapable of holding the engineers accountable and making sure they follow all safety protocols. Whether that is incompetence or malice I’m sure we’ll never know for sure.
ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wouldn’t it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites…? Exploding “into pieces” seems downright SOP to me.
PanArab@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The door plug again?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 year ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It was probably an emergency exit hatch for the magic rocket gas.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… 7 members of Hezbollah injured.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That brought a legit chuckle!
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Great, more bits of dangerous junk in orbit. The fuckers should have to clear up their mess before it fucks up other satellites.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 year ago
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.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How did it break up? I wasn’t aware that Boeing was determined to be a fault in the build process.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Circunstancial evidence points to Boeing being a failed company.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
That’s actually quite impressive because most satellites just don’t do anything when they die. Bones vehicles die with flare, and depressing regularity
yogurt@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s only because they’re designed with passivation to vent tanks and disconnect batteries to remove sources of explosion when they start to die. If that fails the tanks eventually pop from thermal cycling or the solar panels overcharge the battery until it blows up like a Russian satellite did earlier this year.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“in space no one can hear you scream”
Boeing satellites: “AHHHHHH!!!”
roserose56@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 year ago
did you know that high powered lasers are invisible to the naked without a sufficient particulate medium to pass through?
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Good thing I’m wearing clothes.
dreikelvin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Satellite: “But I wasn’t boing anything wrong!”
lunar17@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
China has anti geosync capability.
Zron@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Is this a trick question? Cause you might as well be asking a 1600s peasant how to develop film.
Zip2@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Plus “Into pieces” is rather unnecessary there.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You can explode without turning into pieces, though
Zip2@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Arguable. I’d say it’s the same but the size of the pieces varies.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What, was it blowing a whistle?
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Was it a Satellite Max?
Technotica@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The satellite went boing boing?
Resol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, not double boing. It went triple boing.
clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Sounds like that case of the sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-contracted killing in China that one time
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not really into the stock market, but I would not buy Boeing at the moment.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I dunno, I think they could still surprise us with new ways to fuck up.
reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now would be the best time to do it
BarryHalls@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Unless it’s a dead cat moment :)
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
puts on conspiracy hat Did musk hit it with something?
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Musk probably hit it with his signature offensive odor
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Doubtful. Dude ain’t got no ups.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Probably because it’s very important that he is involved in every discussion, even if it doesn’t initially involve him.
LorIps@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Did it happen to have a beeper?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Man they are just on fire lately
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
firerapidly decompressingflyingjake@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Lol I believe it would be rapid uncontrolled oxidation
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…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).
yeather@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Go look up what Samsung started out selling. They make a ton of military shit too just mostly for their own country.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
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.
fubarx@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
It was the window seal.
bamfic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Acklavidian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Parts
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
Smaller components.
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
Your mom
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Regulations
ravhall@discuss.online 1 year ago
Boeing killed John Barnett.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
True? I think so. Off-topic? Also true.
ravhall@discuss.online 1 year ago
BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 year ago
This is a story about Being. How could it be off topic?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 year ago
J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!
fnrir@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The YHVH cosmic canons
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So now this satellite can be an “anomaly” for another satellite, and the circle of life continues…
Quexotic@infosec.pub 1 year ago
🎶 It’s not the best choice it’s Spacers Choice!🎶