Communications Satellite Intelsat 33e Breaks Up In Geostationary Orbit
https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=71282
Re Bad break up:
Sky event?
{{sigh}}
Dasting....
You don’t “break up” in geosynchronous orbit without running into something going pretty freakin’ fast.
“Intelsat 33e, also known as IS-33e, was a high throughput geostationary communications satellite operated by Intelsat and designed and manufactured by Boeing Space Systems on the BSS 702MP satellite bus. It was the second satellite of the Epicᴺᴳ service, and covered Europe, Africa and most of Asia from the 60° East longitude, where it replaced Intelsat 904. It had a mixed C-band, Ku-band and Ka-band payload with all bands featuring wide and C- and Ku- also featured spot beams.”
Pay close attention to how politicians and corporate type folks act following this. If you were gonna be mucking around a “turns out to be internet accessible” voting system[s] you’d probably be streaming up/down through something like this…