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Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces (futurism.com)

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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] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shouldnt have been blowing that whistle!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's hard to fall out of the window in space, on account of not being able to fall and not having windows. But Boeing's got rocket scientists working on the problem!

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

Akshually, the satellite was falling the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Engineering is busy not building planes....