They'd just been launched and hadn't raised orbit yet
It was the massive increase in drag from the heated upper atmosphere wot got em, not the radiation. If they'd been on station they'd have done just as well as the other Christ knows how many thousand already up there. Just shitty timing really. Only realistic solution is to chalk fuck on it and launch another job lot.
(, Wed 9 Feb 2022, 13:05, Reply)