cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1341668

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

  • SolidGrue
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    1630 days ago

    On the one hand: GodDAMMIT, Boeing!

    On the other hand: C’mon now, which one of you was fucking around with the Space Laser?

    • bizarroland
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      1130 days ago

      My bad. One of my Jewish friends let me borrow it and I couldn’t help but push the big red button that says don’t push

    • @ramielrowe
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      1130 days ago

      I mean, if you get hit by something, that tends to happen suddenly.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 days ago

      It might have been hit by something. Or it could have had a failure and blown itself up. The history of these buses and some previous observations on this satellite, plus Boeing being involved, makes me inclined to think it blew itself up.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      429 days ago

      It’s hard to fall out of the window in space, on account of not being able to fall and not having windows. But Boeing’s got rocket scientists working on the problem!

      • @AlbinoPython
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        229 days ago

        Akshually, the satellite was falling the whole time.