I'm honestly happy to see that it just had a fuel malfunction instead of the implication of an outside cause...
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That was a previous satellite. This one appears to still be unknown if I'm not mistaken.
Makes me wonder if we have some Kessler Syndrome on our hands... πππ
Probably not. Anyway.
Yeah, blowing up satellites and cutting undersea internet cables would be (a short) prelude to world war III.
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Jack Welch is up there with the guy who invented leaded gasoline and the chemicals that put holes in the ozone.
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. π
did you know that high powered lasers are invisible to the naked eye without a sufficient particulate medium to pass through?
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The door plug again?
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
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That's not good. βSubtitle
Wouldn't it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites..? Exploding "into pieces" seems downright SOP to me.
It was the window seal.
Did it happen to have a beeper?
I did read about this yesterday, and as far as I know the name of the sat is intelsat 33e and its for communication purposes. I'm curious to know what really happen, how it broke.