Not a good year to be boeing hardware

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We have outer space pretty well mapped, tens of thousands of pieces of space junk are tracked daily, I have a hard time believing you could take out a satellite and have nobody know.

    Nah, just Boeing being Boeing.

    • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      We have outer space pretty well mapped

      An estimate from before this satellite broke up was that 97% of space debris is not tracked and that there are 131 million pieces of untracked debris in space.

      Now that said, I think your point is valid because most of this untracked debris is much smaller than a satellite