20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit 253
schwit1 writes A 20-year-old U.S. military weather satellite apparently exploded for no obvious reason. The incident has put several dozen pieces of space junk into orbit. From the article: "A 20-year-old military weather satellite apparently exploded in orbit Feb. 3 following what the U.S. Air Force described as a sudden temperature spike. The “catastrophic event” produced 43 pieces of space debris, according to Air Force Space Command, which disclosed the loss of the satellite Feb. 27 in response to questions from SpaceNews. The satellite, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Flight 13, was the oldest continuously operational satellite in the DMSP weather constellation."
It was Terrorists! (Score:2, Funny)
Invade Mars immediately.
It should stand two degrees, for sure! (Score:2, Funny)
Even the military grade tech deteriorates. Surely it should withstand a two degree increase - especially over a century!
The truth (Score:5, Funny)
The truth is the explosion came just after a software update.
Sources that want to remain anonymous confirmed the update included systemd.
Re:Canada (Score:4, Funny)
Aliens.
Re:fixed it for ya (Score:4, Funny)
It takes a lot of energy to change the weather. Some of it must have leaked.
My Bad (Score:5, Funny)
Turns out those green laser pointers you get in the mail are a lot more powerful than you would think.
Re:Star Wars! (Score:4, Funny)
Explosion after a measurable temperature hike sounds more like a laser or maser attack than a collision
Really, and how does it sound in space?
Re:Canada (Score:4, Funny)
I miss the good old days, when you knew to blame everything on the Axis of Evil, and you could solve all our problems by bombing Iraq.
Its a warning shot... (Score:5, Funny)
...telling us to stay the hell away from their base on Ceres.
We should retaliate by beaming Youtube comments at them.
Re:Conspiracy theories (Score:5, Funny)
Your conspiracy theory only makes sense if you know absolutely nothing at all about what's actually going on.
That's the very best kind of conspiracy theory.
Re:It should stand two degrees, for sure! (Score:5, Funny)
The Earth.