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. π
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Jack Welch is up there with the guy who invented leaded gasoline and the chemicals that put holes in the ozone.
The door plug again?
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
Wouldn't it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites..? Exploding "into pieces" seems downright SOP to me.
It was the window seal.
That's not good. βSubtitle
Did it happen to have a beeper?
You can't make this shit up lmao.
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.