They where in a sensitive moment after the launch while they couldn't deploy their solar panels as the solarstorm made the extremly thin part of the atmosphere denser than normal, and then the spinned up reactionwheel could nor reorient them in time to open the solarpanel that is essential in the fuel effiecient Ion drive that would have pushed them into the final orbit. It isn't as these might drop out of space each time there is an solar storm. Every satellite is sensitive to solar storms, but mainly because of overpowered electric systems and some in low earth orbit can be slowed down just because of this denser atmosphere. Launching these when the sun is not acting up makes it work as it should and they ought have taken that in account and postsponed the launch. As said above, watch Scott Manleys video on Youtube.

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And those doesn't use lead batteries! :)

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Can't alter the reply, forgot the smiley ;-)

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Heard about a new invention called fences?

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Allergies among customers?

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I think it is a very often occuring indication of the "making it as cheap as possible" syndrome that affects all area of business these days. You narrow down the staff as much as possible just over the hurt limit that you have to skip some work to keep up. Then when it's time to pension the ones who have the knowledge you hire a new one at the last minute, often with the education, but not the experience. And by not having the experienced work along with the new ones for a long enough time, knowledge get dropped on the floor and you have to start all over with some work, that your products suffers and that your sales drop isn't something that is taken into consideration when you don't remember that the thing the whole company lives on is the final products, just the local budget is important and it is a very dangerous game companies are playing just to be the cheapest ones. Also in the other end, contracts that only see costs, not quality, is a big part of the same syndrome. Things get

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I see a future for hybrids in short hop flights, like the Norwegian fjords that Wideroe flies, a combined turboprop with electric propulsion for level flights and jetfuel for take offs and as a go-around preparedness!

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Enough to cover a 7 year old girl in the backseat of a car, saw an interview with her and her grandma who was driving. The firedepartment removed her clothes and put her in a blanket as she was all wet from the "water" as she said. Kind parents and firedepartment didn't tell her what it was, no reason to make it more traumatic than it was. I hope no one makes her imagine what could have happend!Not until she is much older!

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I stumbled across the video taken by some kid calling his mother. The fire was out before the crash, it seemed the firesurpression worked, and the aircraft didn't have that much of an AOA and moved quiet fast, I have a feeling that the fire was hydraulic fluid and that this might be the reason for the stallspin, no control, lost secondary systems as well?

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So you choose to fly with an airline that has staff that are submitting to the fast evolution of the virus and place their bodys as testlabs to evolve more contagious strands like the D-version now would you? And the number 74% in hospitals are vaccinated, a number of questions: What are they in hospitals for? If they are Covid-positive, how many are severly affected and needs to use seducted breathing apparatus? When did they get vaccinated and with what brand, and how many shots have they got before the sickness showed it self? I personally got Covid 4 days after my first shot of Phizer, my family two days after the same shot we must have been infected shortly before our shots, I suffered minor problems and was back at work within 3 weeks, they where hospitalized with oxygen breathing still awake. We now have had our second also and still despite an immunity above many else we keep distances and do not try to inadvertivly spread the new strand as it is likely not affecting us as hard

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