A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    391·
    7 days ago

    Wow, Boeing keeps finding new and interesting ways to be incompetent. They seriously need their entire C-suite replaced with engineering types.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      The saddest thing about that is they mostly are.

      Business majors are the office grunts and middle managers of corporatism. Capital interests are more than aware that business degrees are basically adult daycares, and prefer engineering or law degrees for C-levels in industry.

      • Pacattack57@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        6 days ago

        I saw an interview with Jack Ma (I think) where he said his job isn’t to be the smartest at the job. His job is to find the smart people and make sure they work together. I think that may be what’s happening here. Leadership is incapable of holding the engineers accountable and making sure they follow all safety protocols. Whether that is incompetence or malice I’m sure we’ll never know for sure.

    • Toofpic@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Sorry, I just bought several Boeing stocks at the time they didn’t kill anyone yet, and now they have to do all that stuff to not let me out with a profit

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    7 days ago

    I’m honestly happy to see that it just had a fuel malfunction instead of the implication of an outside cause…

  • kandoh@reddthat.comEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Jack Welch is up there with the guy who invented leaded gasoline and the chemicals that put holes in the ozone.

  • ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    Wouldn’t it be a bit more concerning if it exploded into smaller, yet complete satellites…? Exploding “into pieces” seems downright SOP to me.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
    1892·
    8 days ago

    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.

    • piskertariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Selective quoting is basically lying.

      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.

      With the context of the quote, I"m curious what the pattern you’ve identified is.

    • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      174·
      8 days ago

      Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

      And increase C-level compensation, of course.

        • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          414·
          7 days ago

          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?

          • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            19·
            7 days ago

            Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?

      • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        7 days ago

        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…”

      • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
        16·
        7 days ago

        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.

      • TechnologyChef@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 days ago

        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.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    1242·
    7 days ago

    That’s actually quite impressive because most satellites just don’t do anything when they die. Boeing’s vehicles die with flare, and depressing regularity

    • yogurt@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      7 days ago

      That’s only because they’re designed with passivation to vent tanks and disconnect batteries to remove sources of explosion when they start to die. If that fails the tanks eventually pop from thermal cycling or the solar panels overcharge the battery until it blows up like a Russian satellite did earlier this year.