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The spacecraft, built by the embattled aerospace giant Boeing, encountered major issues over this past weekend, according to Intelsat. On Saturday, the company revealed the satellite experienced an "anomaly" that knocked it offline. On Monday, Intelsat declared it a total loss after it broke apart.

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[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How does it break apart. Is that just fancy talk for explode?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

It most likely collided with some space debris. A piece of debris that is too small to track is still enough to smash a satellite apart.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

Holy shit this company....