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Lockheed Martin Drops NOAA Satellite

Posted by michael on from the all-the-king's-horses-being-mobilized dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last Saturday, engineers at Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale were rotating the NOAA-N spacecraft from vertical to horizontal when it slipped and fell - hard. SpaceRef has the story and a graphic photo of the damaged satellite."

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  1. Shit.. by leifm · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I thought I was pissed when I dropped my iBook...

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  2. 24 bolts? by BigBir3d · · Score: 4, Funny

    How the heck are 24 bolts missing? Someone is sooooo fired over this one!

  3. Bad Engineering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's just, what, a 20G decelleration? Heck, my laptop can survive more than that. Here, watch m

  4. Personally, I find this re-assuring... by FFFish · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...'cause it means that on the whole, no matter how bad a day I'm having, I can always remember: someone else had a far, far worse one.

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  5. photoshop? by oni · · Score: 4, Funny

    I feel sorry for the engineers who's work has been damaged, but I can't help but want to photoshop this. There is a desk complete with in-out boxes just to the left of the satellite. I think there needs to be a small pool of blood there to make this funny.

    Bad news: we dropped a multi-million dollar satellite
    Worse news: it landed on Phil, the only guy who knows how to fix it.

  6. Consecutive slashdot stories by Smack · · Score: 4, Funny

    Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks
    Lockheed Martin Drops NOAA Satellite

    Hee.