Boeing Troubles - One of the world's largest aerospace manufacturers keeps having problems with their planes.

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This email was just sent out by the union to all their members.

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TLDR- "If you all lose your jobs, it's not our fault for striking. It's Boeing's fault for not giving in."
 
Not meeting performance goals of failures on earth, now a Boeing satellite in space rapidly disassembled.

The Intelsat 33e satellite has broken up in geostationary orbit (GEO) and lost power, ceasing communications services for customers across Europe, Africa and parts of Asia Pacific.

Intelsat said in an Oct. 19 news release it is working with satellite maker Boeing to address an anomaly that emerged earlier that day, but “believe it is unlikely that the satellite will be recoverable.” An Intelsat spokesperson said the satellite was not insured at the time of the issue.
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Not meeting performance goals of failures on earth, now a Boeing satellite in space rapidly disassembled.


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Apparently when it was launched in 2016 it also had severe thruster issues reducing its usable life by 3 years.

Another typical Boeing L
 
Someone made a video of the year's Boeing issues.


There was a mention that a flight search engine experienced a multiple thousand percent increase in searches for non-Boeing flights.
 
You have to admit the assasination department was a wise investment since its carrying the whole company at the moment
 
The front page of the Seattle Times had a headline yesterday implying there's more issues popping up with the machinist strike. I got a text from my insider last night that 64% of the voting members have rejected the contract that the union leadership was willing to accept. Boeing has been threatening to leave Washington for a while, but the last couple governors have showered them in tax cuts. This may be what finally pushes them to Texas.
 
Not meeting performance goals of failures on earth, now a Boeing satellite in space rapidly disassembled.


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So that's the 2nd recent one. The last failure was a really big hit to Viasat. They had a lot of government and airline contracts lined up for Viasat-3. That was their last chance to get ahead of Starlink.
I would be really surprised if any company will ever trust Boeing to assemble their birds again.
 
Now if only there were some competitors to Boeing - except Boeing either took over them or drove them out of business.
 
More importantly, how much - if any - of the space division is salvageable without a full rebuild and new staff?
It really depends. There might be patents and property that could be valuable. Leadership will of course have to be fired, and the Bobs will need to be brought in to conduct interviews of staff that run along the lines of...

 
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