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Intelsat 33e loses power in geostationary orbit (spacenews.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] skysurfer 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The U.S. Space Command is reporting it has broken up as of Oct. 19th at 0430UTC. 20 pieces tracked currently.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Damn. Even if there are "no immediate threats", 20+ pieces in GEO doesn't sound like a fun time. I wonder what the cause was?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Being up that high, it probably got whack by a meteorite.