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fnands t1_j130fd1 wrote

Damn, and with two Pleiades Neo satellites on board.

That sucks a big fat one for commercial earth observation. The Neo's have such great sensors.

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toodroot t1_j130pr2 wrote

There's a lot of competition!

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fnands t1_j1318f0 wrote

Such as? The only sat that's really close (that I'm aware of) is Worldview-3

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silly_tilly t1_j133vpk wrote

Is it possible to retrieve the satellites, or did they burn down?

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fnands t1_j1344g1 wrote

Not sure if they made it high enough to burn on re-entry, but they are dead anyway. Probably deep under water and in a thousand pieces.

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silly_tilly t1_j134xo1 wrote

Well, that's sad and expensive.

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fnands t1_j13978c wrote

Very expensive. I hope they were insured.

They have been waiting on launch since May, so this is a huge setback. I mean, luckily there are already 2 in orbit, but planned constellation size is 4.

I wonder if they will replace or just move on to the next thing

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Layer_4_Solutions t1_j14etd4 wrote

> Very expensive. I hope they were insured.

Doubt it. Governments generally self-insure.

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mangalore-x_x t1_j16bize wrote

They are also the ones wanting space industry so particularly here it is a wash Because France wants arianespace to continue and finances both.

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outjet t1_j144oy8 wrote

Those things are crispy and useless unfortunately.

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