Not a good year to be boeing hardware

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      11 hours ago

      If it’s still in geostationary orbit, no. Generally debris aren’t in a perfectly defined orbit like that, though.

      If it’s debris that used to be in geostationary orbit, they’re going to be in an array of slightly different orbits, and so will have an epicycle of some kind as seen from the earth.

      Also, note that intelligence satellites tend not to be geostationary, because that would limit their collection area. I don’t know about this specific one.