Man they are just on fire lately
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...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.
It was the window seal.
If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Chunks, obviously
Smithereens!
To shreds you say
Boeing killed John Barnett.
It was probably a whistleblower satellite.
That satellite was about to reveal company secrets
The secret is that Boeing is run by criminally careless assholes. Wait, that's not a secret.
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.
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
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.
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...."
There really is no other option.
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?
Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and ~bribes~ lobbying
You need double ~~tides~~ tildes for the cross out text to work
And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.
An epic pattern my be on the horizon?
So now this satellite can be an "anomaly" for another satellite, and the circle of life continues...
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..."
J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!
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.
At least it was outside. Better out than in, I always say
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. 😁
Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
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.
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.
You should look at some numbers before saying "probably". It was much less probably space garbage than just Boeing. "Much less probably" here stands for "completely fucking irrelevant".