Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
That's actually quite impressive because most satellites just don't do anything when they die. Boeing's vehicles die with flare, and depressing regularity
"in space no one can hear you scream"
Boeing satellites: "AHHHHHH!!!"
Great, more bits of dangerous junk in orbit. The fuckers should have to clear up their mess before it fucks up other satellites.
What, was it blowing a whistle?
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?
Satellite: "But I wasn't boing anything wrong!"
Rapid unscheduled disassembly.
Plus “Into pieces” is rather unnecessary there.
You can explode without turning into pieces, though
Was it a Satellite Max?
did you know that high powered lasers are invisible to the naked without a sufficient particulate medium to pass through?
Good thing I'm wearing clothes.
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.
Boeing: outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer who outsources to an outsourcer and so on and still has the shamelessness of appearing surprised at the shit quality and reliability they deliver
I'm not really into the stock market, but I would not buy Boeing at the moment.
Now would be the best time to do it
Assuming it bounces back up
The satellite went boing boing?
No, not double boing. It went triple boing.
Man they are just on fire lately
on firerapidly decompressingLol I believe it would be rapid uncontrolled oxidation
Did it happen to have a beeper?
...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).
Samsung shook the meme off, but I feel like Boeing will have a harder time.
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.
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.
Although equally the company wouldn't have felt the need to take shortcuts if Samsung had made the batteries to a standard design.
puts on conspiracy hat
Did musk hit it with something?
Probably because it's very important that he is involved in every discussion, even if it doesn't initially involve him.
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
Surprised Pikachu face...
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.
I see a pattern.
Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
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.
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...."
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.
And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.
An epic pattern my be on the horizon?
Did the front fall off?
I guess space is technically out of the environment.
They thought it did ... so they tried turning it off then on again ... and it exploded.
"Did it pass the smoke test?"
"Kinda... There's no smoke, anyway..."
That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years 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:
I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while we watched a guy with a wrench and a rag trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing. It wasn't hugely reassuring.
Nowadays when I fly the fiirst criteria when I search for flights I check the airline's fleet, then price.
At least it was outside. Better out than in, I always say
Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
So now this satellite can be an "anomaly" for another satellite, and the circle of life continues...
J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!
The YHVH cosmic canons
That's gonna leave a mess.
Fortunately, Boeing is a responsible entity and will plan on cleaning it up... right?
I hope not "Gravity" movie levels of mess..
Geostationary orbit is waaaaay high.
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. 😁
It was the window seal.
That's not good. —Subtitle
You can't make this shit up lmao.
Boeing evil! Am I right! (laughter)
It was probably space garbage, and that's seriously alarming.
