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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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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

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. 😁

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

Jack Welch is up there with the guy who invented leaded gasoline and the chemicals that put holes in the ozone.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

The door plug again?

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

J E W I S H. S P A C E. L A S E R S!

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[–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.

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Wouldn't it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites..? Exploding "into pieces" seems downright SOP to me.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month ago

That's not good. β€”Subtitle

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

It was the window seal.

[–] Technotica@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The satellite went boing boing?

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

Did it happen to have a beeper?

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