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by wongarsu
604 days ago
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It's anyways possible that it was struck by a meteorite or a piece of space debris that's too small to be tracked. But these satellites also carry fuel for orbit keeping, evasion manoeuvres and going to a graveyard orbit at its end of life. Given that this satellite had two separate propulsion issues and Intelsat-29e suffered from electrostatic discharge it's not difficult to imagine the satellite igniting its fuel in an uncontrolled manner |
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