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

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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 weeks ago

I guess space is technically out of the environment.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They thought it did ... so they tried turning it off then on again ... and it exploded.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

"Did it pass the smoke test?"

"Kinda... There's no smoke, anyway..."