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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] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

puts on conspiracy hat

Did musk hit it with something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Doubtful. Dude ain't got no ups.

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

Musk probably hit it with his signature offensive odor

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You can't make this shit up lmao.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It was probably an emergency exit hatch for the magic rocket gas.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Boeing evil! Am I right! (laughter)

It was probably space garbage, and that's seriously alarming.

[–] 0x0 2 points 1 month ago

There are many organizations tracking space debris and most of it is in LEO, where this satellite was not.

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