As space junk increases, more operators are choosing to launch without any insurance at all. To compensate, companies are ...

And in October, the Boeing-made satellite Intelsat 33e suddenly shattered into more than 20 pieces without warning. Scientists are still trying to figure out what happened.

Intelsat 33e’s break-up in geostationary orbit highlights an emerging threat for the contested space domain, an executive at U.S.-based space-tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions said Dec. 10 ...

We know IS-33e has exploded. A few images of the Intelsat 33E (2016-053B/41748) debris, recorded this night, 2024-10-21, between 17:45 and 18:08 UTC.

More debris has been detected from the Intelsat 33e communications satellite that disintegrated over the Indian Ocean, threatening hundreds of satellites in geostationary orbit, including those ...

Boeing's Intelsat 33e satellite — a large communications satellite — has mysteriously broken up in orbit, scattering at least 20 chunks of space junk across Earth's skies and affecting users across ...

Russian space agency Roscosmos, in a release, said, “The obtained data regarding the Intelsat-33e debris indicate that there is a potential threat to all operating spacecraft, including the ...

The catastrophic failure of Intelsat’s I-33e satellites on October 19th is now known to have created a debris field of at least 40 different pieces. The craft is a total loss, says Intelsat and the ...

Notably, Intelsat 33e entered service three months late due to an issue with its primary thruster, and another propulsion issue reduced its service life by 3.5 years.

Intelsat, the company that owned the satellite, said in a news release on Oct. 21 that the Intelsat 33e satellite was confirmed as a total loss due to an anomaly reported on Oct. 19.

Despite the figure provided by Space Force officials earlier this week, the Russian space agency Roscosmos claimed it had identified four times as many pieces of suspected debris from the satellite ...

Initial reports on October 20 said Intelsat 33e had experienced a sudden power loss. Hours later, US Space Forces-Space confirmed the satellite appears to have broken up into at least 20 pieces.