Not a good year to be boeing hardware

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    10 days ago

    Considering it’s Boeing and the same thing happened to the last one a few years ago… I mean, it’s not rocket science.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    10 days 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.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 days 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

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Ah, ok. You mean another satellite on suicide mission. The russkis probably have some available. I was thinking of some anti-satellite rocket missile like it has been used for destruction of the satellite Kosmos 1408. However, as it is launched from an airplane, I doubt it produces a splash, like heavy rockets do, that would be visible from space by espionage satellites.

        • Person264@lemmings.worldEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          ASAT missiles are only suitable for low earth orbit, you’d need a rocket about the size of a falcon 9 to reach GEO where Intelsat was sitting. Think people might notice that. Wouldn’t need the satellite to be on a suicide mission, could just slap a gun on it like the good old days.