A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
Boeing evil! Am I right! (laughter)
It was probably space garbage, and that’s seriously alarming.
Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
Submitted 1 year ago by shoulderoforion@fedia.io to technology@lemmy.world
https://futurism.com/the-byte/large-satellite-explodes-pieces
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shalafi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should look at some numbers before saying “probably”. It was much less probably space garbage than just Boeing. “Much less probably” here stands for “completely fucking irrelevant”.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You can’t make this shit up lmao.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
So in addition to the Boeing low hanging fruit - feels like the opener to a scifi story involving either covert space weapons testing or the start to some kind of extraterrestrial invasion. 😁
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It burnt down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
superkret@feddit.org 1 year ago
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.
Boeing produces more leaks than this guy:
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while I watched a guy with a wrench trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing.
elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Whenever I Nowadays when I fly the fiirst criteria when I search for flights I check the airline’s fleet, then price.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least it was outside. Better out than in, I always say
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Did the front fall off?
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I guess space is technically out of the environment.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They thought it did … so they tried turning it off then on again … and it exploded.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 year ago
“Did it pass the smoke test?”
“Kinda… There’s no smoke, anyway…”
KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years ago.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s roughly equivalent to “something something pilot’s balls” in the comments of a video of an aircraft.
A joke that’s been absolutely beaten to death years ago, but people just will not accept it’s run it’s course.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It was probably a whistleblower satellite.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
That satellite was about to reveal company secrets
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The secret is that Boeing is run by criminally careless assholes. Wait, that’s not a secret.
toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
Surprised Pikachu face…
piskertariot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Selective quoting is basically lying.
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.
With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
TechnologyChef@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Vanth@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.
And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.
this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know this smells of some pencil Pusher looking at an engineer going “can you bring the cost of that rubber o-ring down 13 cents”… “I know you were looking for a specific type of seal but I got this huge assortment pack right here from my local temu…”
HighlyRegardedArtist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.
JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
They’re not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It’s a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
batist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
However, the decay is horrible (or non-existant).