Did it happen to have a beeper?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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It was probably a whistleblower satellite.
That satellite was about to reveal company secrets
The secret is that Boeing is run by criminally careless assholes. Wait, that's not a secret.
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puts on conspiracy hat
Did musk hit it with something?
Nah, it obviously wanted to whistlelbow about Boeing.
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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.
Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.
And increase C-level compensation, of course.
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.
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.
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Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and ~bribes~ lobbying
You need double ~~tides~~ tildes for the cross out text to work
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...."
Well, 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.
And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.
An epic pattern my be on the horizon?
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If it hadnt exploded into peices,what would it havr exploded into instead?
Did the front fall off?
I guess space is technically out of the environment.
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..."
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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.
Nowadays when I fly the fiirst criteria when I search for flights I check the airline's fleet, then price.
At least it was outside. Better out than in, I always say
Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
So now this satellite can be an "anomaly" for another satellite, and the circle of life continues...
It was the window seal.
That's gonna leave a mess.
Fortunately, Boeing is a responsible entity and will plan on cleaning it up... right?
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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. 😁
Kessler Syndrome anyone?
There's not really a threat in geostationary orbits. It's a much bigger area with far fewer satellites.
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You can't make this shit up lmao.