Boeing Satellite Exploded Into at Least 500 Pieces of Debris

They range from “small fragments roughly the size of a softball to larger pieces up to the size of a car door.”Orbital WreckEarlier this month, a massive satellite that belonged to multinational service provider Intelsat and was built by Boeing mysteriously exploded into pieces.Beyond an official update detailing an “anomaly” that resulted in a “total loss” of the satellite dubbed IS-33e, officials have yet to determine the exact cause.And the extent of the resulting cloud of space junk is only starting to come to light. As SpaceNews reports, space-tracking company ExoAnalytic…

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