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2020-03-31 Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar satellite stops working
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Posted by John Frum 2020-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Is there anything socialism can't kill?
Posted by gorb 2020-03-31 00:38||   2020-03-31 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ stupidity
Posted by Lex 2020-03-31 00:44||   2020-03-31 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 When radio waves don't want to work you have pretty much dis-incentivised everything.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 00:44||   2020-03-31 00:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Cheap Chinese junk.
Posted by Hupaiting Ulelet8252 2020-03-31 00:57||   2020-03-31 00:57|| Front Page Top

#5 ...maybe it was turned off...
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-03-31 01:08||   2020-03-31 01:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe we're about to attack them.
Posted by gorb 2020-03-31 02:59||   2020-03-31 02:59|| Front Page Top

#7 This has the smell of NSA hacking all over it.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-03-31 04:49||   2020-03-31 04:49|| Front Page Top

#8 ... an invisible carbon dioxide laser, fired from the Grassy Knoll in Dallas...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 07:33||   2020-03-31 07:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, there were two intersecting carbon dioxide lasers fired from the knoll.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-31 08:00||   2020-03-31 08:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Did they try reinstalling Windows XP?
Posted by Raj 2020-03-31 10:34||   2020-03-31 10:34|| Front Page Top

#11 If you actually read about what's going on with the satellite, it's out of its intended orbit and tumbling. Could be the result of a systems failure, or impact with space junk, or, yes, intentional meddling. I don't think the X-37B is moving in the same altitude band though, and it wouldn't make sense to risk it to go after such a meaningless target.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 10:40||   2020-03-31 10:40|| Front Page Top

#12 it wouldn't make sense to risk it to go after such a meaningless target.

Other than to demonstrate we can.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-31 11:14||   2020-03-31 11:14|| Front Page Top

#13 Maybe also to jog Bolivarians' memories of Nifty Package...
Posted by Lex 2020-03-31 11:45||   2020-03-31 11:45|| Front Page Top

#14 If you were going to takee a chance on losing an X-37 (and that's always a risk when you manoeuver a remotely piloted craft near an unpiloted satellite moving many thousands on miles per hour) you'd pick something strategic that would make waves.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-31 11:47||   2020-03-31 11:47|| Front Page Top

#15 Made in China. Prematurely failed. Any surprise here?
Posted by John Frum 2020-03-31 11:50||   2020-03-31 11:50|| Front Page Top

#16 All the fuses and circuits blew out from Bolivarian Rage.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-03-31 12:52||   2020-03-31 12:52|| Front Page Top

#17 What’s the big deal? Just launch another one.
Posted by KBK 2020-03-31 15:40||   2020-03-31 15:40|| Front Page Top

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