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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Plus “Into pieces” is rather unnecessary there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can explode without turning into pieces, though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Arguable. I’d say it’s the same but the size of the pieces varies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where do pieces end and particles begin?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The actual answer is at vaporization temperature. Which the satellite did not reach.