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The U.S. Space Force is tracking debris in space after a satellite manufactured by Boeing exploded earlier this week, the satellite's operator said.

The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched in 2016 and provides communications across Europe, Asia and Africa, experienced "an anomaly" on Saturday, Intelsat said in a news release. Attempts were made to work with Boeing and repair the satellite, but on Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed that the satellite had exploded. . .

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>The U.S. Space Force is tracking debris in space after a satellite manufactured by Boeing exploded earlier this week, the satellite's operator said. >The Intelsat 33e satellite, which was launched in 2016 and provides communications across Europe, Asia and Africa, experienced "an anomaly" on Saturday, Intelsat said in a news release. Attempts were made to work with Boeing and repair the satellite, but on Monday, the U.S. Space Force confirmed that the satellite had exploded. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/RhWMG)
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It was probably the after effects of the October 19 solar flares.

…and shoddy work. No one else lost a satellite that day.

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A toasted chip or board I could understand. Explosions not as much.

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I can see a fried chip or board or some mechanical failure ... but explosion?

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That I cannot explain.

CanIPlay2’s guesses sound plausible. A fuel tank could have ignited. It still takes a monumental screw up to make that possible. Starlink lost another batch of satellites during the storm back in May and I didn’t read about any of them exploding.

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Unexpected solar flair messed them up.

They all burned down on planned reentry.