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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] 187 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

And increase C-level compensation, of course.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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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