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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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[–] [email protected] 187 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 174 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

And increase C-level compensation, of course.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

There really is no other option.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Then we can give bigger bonuses! What a genius idea.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course there is! They could spend more money in PR campaigns and ~bribes~ lobbying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

You need double ~~tides~~ tildes for the cross out text to work

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months 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...."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

And do some more stock buybacks and raise dividends, of course.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

An epic pattern my be on the horizon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Their first mistake was building on the BeamNG platform.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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.