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> The event comes as a surprise given that the satellite only was in operation for seven years, while other satellites like it are rated for between 15 to 20 years of work. "We are coordinating with the satellite manufacturer, Boeing, and government agencies to analyze data and observations," Intelsat officials added in their statement.

Yea. Hard to figure out.

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Can we let Boeing fail already? The vacuum would allow others to step in. You know people who actually want to make flying things that work.

If you take the "works" part out of the equation they seem really eager though. They regularly take a single flying thing and turn it into many flying things.

As funny as this is, sometimes shit happens in space. We may be seeing early effects of having a huge amount of orbiting space junk.

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