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

  • Billiam
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    704 hours ago

    Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

    And increase C-level compensation, of course.

    • Vanth
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      257 minutes 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
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      52 hours 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…”

    • @Atropos
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      193 hours ago

      There really is no other option.

      • @YourAvgMortal
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        41 hour ago

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

        • @Nurse_Robot
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          133 minutes ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        163 hours 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?