By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Satellite DirecTV had to ask the FCC for permission to crash a satellite out of orbit, the Spaceway-1, a 15-year-old Boeing 702HP. In what is still only the second-biggest problem Boeing has had lately, the satellite has suffered serious thermal damage to its batteries, and those batteries can’t be guaranteed to not burst anymore, and given that that would be a debris-spewing problem in orbit the best course of action is just to crash it into the atmosphere. The satellite has
Numlock News: January 24, 2020 • Satellites, Cabernet Sauvignon, Snake Venom
Numlock News: January 24, 2020 • Satellites…
Numlock News: January 24, 2020 • Satellites, Cabernet Sauvignon, Snake Venom
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Satellite DirecTV had to ask the FCC for permission to crash a satellite out of orbit, the Spaceway-1, a 15-year-old Boeing 702HP. In what is still only the second-biggest problem Boeing has had lately, the satellite has suffered serious thermal damage to its batteries, and those batteries can’t be guaranteed to not burst anymore, and given that that would be a debris-spewing problem in orbit the best course of action is just to crash it into the atmosphere. The satellite has