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Old 30th October 2024 | 11:05
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Things space-wise are not going so well for Boeing.

A Boeing-built geostationary satellite, Intelsat 33e, which had been in use for 8 years failed recently.
It's been discovered that it has broken up into many pieces which is unusual for a geostationary
telecommunications satellite. They normally have a service life of 15 years.

Intelsat is still investigating what caused the in-orbit breakup of Intelsat 33e, the second in a series of four EpicNG (next-generation) high throughput satellites Boeing built for the operator.

The first in this series, Intelsat-29e, was declared a total loss in 2019 after three years in orbit.
https://spacenews.com/exoanalytic-ob...t-33e-breakup/

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