| ▲ | A second Starlink satellite exploded in orbit(twitter.com) |
| 48 points by wmf a day ago | 22 comments |
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| ▲ | bombcar a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Filing “fragment creation event” alongside “rapid unintended disassembly”. |
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| ▲ | dragonwriter a day ago | parent [-] | | A “fragment creation event” that was “likely caused by an internal energetic source”. | | |
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| ▲ | porphyra a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Fortunately, > Due to the low altitude of the event, fragments from this anomaly will likely de-orbit within a few weeks. |
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| ▲ | kelnos a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://xcancel.com/LeoLabs_Space/status/2038680177408880719 |
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| ▲ | manoDev a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Second? When was the first? Is this an instance of weaponization of the LEO? No statement from SpaceX? |
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| ▲ | heyitsmedotjayb a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do they have pressurized gas/liquid onboard that could explode or is this most likely a collision? |
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| ▲ | wmf a day ago | parent | next [-] | | They have argon gas for the ion thrusters that adjust the orbits. | |
| ▲ | verdverm a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | If it were a collision, it would be far more noteworthy and likely in the title | | |
| ▲ | heyitsmedotjayb 18 hours ago | parent [-] | | why would it be more noteworthy? | | |
| ▲ | verdverm 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | It would involve a failure in coordination, observation, or management of orbits. These things make adjustments more often than people realize (aiui) |
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| ▲ | cozzyd a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Tubes must have gotten clogged |
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| ▲ | metalman a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| if, just saying, someone had a huge fucking laser and wanted something to plink away at, and happened to look up at night, most anywhere on the planet, ran the numbers and figured the odds, and well elo's stuff does blow up regularly |
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| ▲ | DarmokJalad1701 a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > and well elo's stuff does blow up regularly [citations needed] | | | |
| ▲ | NetMageSCW a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Really? How many Starlink satellites have blown up? How many F9 second stages? | | |
| ▲ | altairprime a day ago | parent [-] | | There are a lot of better ways to present your point; for example: How many batteries supplied with Elon Musk’s companies’ products have encountered an unplanned combustion event after light or no damage? Does SpaceX use in-house or third-party batteries in their satellites? Is their explosion rate of 2(?) per N, where N is the number of unexploded SpaceX satellites, plausibly still within the statistical ranges defined by non-SpaceX satellites given the data available to us? Did the satellite deflect before it exploded or are the shard trajectories consistent with a zero-impact scenario? etc. | | |
| ▲ | vrighter a day ago | parent [-] | | hate to be pedantic, but for 2 out of N, n would have to be the sum of all satellites including the exploded ones | | |
| ▲ | altairprime 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | You’re probably right but the question isn’t mine in the first place; look up some data and you’re set to discuss with OP. I was constructing communication examples, not mathematically-correct ones. Guess I did well enough at that! |
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