shoulderoforionLarge Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieceshttps://futurism.com/the-byte/large-satellite-explodes-pieces
0x0Surprised Pikachu face…
An epic pattern my be on the horizon soon??
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
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?
Then we can give bigger bonuses! What a genius idea.
Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?
Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and ~bribes~ lobbying
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And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.
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…”
VanthWell, 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.
Exactly why I wonder where our business school ethics go when it seems to me that value is only placed on what can be tied to everyone’s income and profit being the ‘sole’ provider for it, and any Engineer’s ethics being a nice thing for their own time. What would happen if we switch it up to Engineers being in charge who actually learn to make the product and the business side being the client of it rather than the other way around? Could the world be a better place? This doesn’t mean every engineer or either group as a monolith is good or bad. Just that maybe in economics we can see who may value externalities even in capitalism as Adam Smith seemed to promote over just profit.
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potoooooooo ✅️Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.
Selective quoting is basically lying.
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.
With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.
Admiral PatrickThat’s gonna leave a mess.
SharkAttakI hope not "Gravity" movie levels of mess..
Geostationary orbit is waaaaay high.
OpenStarsFortunately, Boeing is a responsible entity and will plan on cleaning it up… right?
toothbrushAnother Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
It was probably a whistleblower satellite.
IninewCrowThat satellite was about to reveal company secrets
The secret is that Boeing is run by criminally careless assholes. Wait, that’s not a secret.
Did the front fall off?
That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years ago.
Not my fault it’s still relevant.
You should tow it out of the environment or something.
It’s roughly equivalent to “something something pilot’s balls” in the comments of a video of an aircraft.
A joke that’s been absolutely beaten to death years ago, but people just will not accept it’s run it’s course.
Lol removed
Absolutely devistating.
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…”
I guess space is technically out of the environment.
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
Whenever I Nowadays when I fly the fiirst criteria when I search for flights I check the airline’s fleet, then price.
It burnt down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
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. 😁
ShadowedcrossYou can’t make this shit up lmao.
Boeing evil! Am I right! (laughter)
It was probably space garbage, and that’s seriously alarming.
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
👍Maximum Derek👍They’re not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It’s a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
However, the decay is horrible (or non-existant).
XtallllDepending on how many pieces it broke into that slot in the Geobelt is probably going to be unusable for years or decades.
So now this satellite can be an “anomaly” for another satellite, and the circle of life continues…
J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!
The YHVH cosmic canons
Boeing killed John Barnett.
True? I think so. Off-topic? Also true.
jagged_circleThis is a story about Being. How could it be off topic?
Aren’t they all though?
BOEING KILLED JOHN BARNETT