Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin put a customer satellite in the wrong orbit during its third launch – the altitude is too low “to sustain operations” and will now have to be de-orbited – left to burn up in the atmosphere of Earth.
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He did.
Whoops
Title of the article suggests there was some miscalculation, but it was actually New Glenn’s second stage that failed to fire for a burn.
Few hundred million gone
The amount of effort, engineering and scientific know-how that it took to make this error. It probably came down to a wrong number being used somewhere.
There’s way too many satellites up there. It’s going to look like Saturn’s rings in no time.
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It’s almost as if BO is first and foremost a vanity project.
Eh anybody remember when spacex blew up a Facebook satellite?
They’ll get a credit back on their Amazon account
Letting space go private is a recipe for a disaster
Wait until the AST SpaceMobile reads Blue Origin’s return policy. 😁
You have no idea what a huge issue space junk is and will be for us. So much of our modern communication relies on satellites, meanwhile, private and public organizations do not give a damn about cleaning up their trash (Elon is a huge offender) which will hurl at insane speeds through space and wreck crucial satellites.