A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • Billiam
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      Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

      And increase C-level compensation, of course.

      • @Atropos
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        482 months ago

        There really is no other option.

        • @[email protected]
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          372 months ago

          Just gonna throw this idea out there:

          What if they hired a bunch of engineers who graduated from sketchy, unaccredited colleges in foreign countries and paid them half as much much?

          • azuth
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            192 months ago

            Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?

        • @YourAvgMortal
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          122 months ago

          Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and bribes lobbying

          • @Nurse_Robot
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            52 months ago

            You need double tides tildes for the cross out text to work

      • @this_1_is_mine
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        202 months 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
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        172 months ago

        And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.

      • Vanth
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        162 months 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.

      • @TechnologyChef
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        42 months 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.

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      2 months ago

      An epic pattern my be on the horizon?

    • ivanafterall ☑️
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      52 months ago

      Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.

    • @piskertariot
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      22 months 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.