Eutelsat OneWeb Power Outage
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•How a leap year mistake knocked out a OneWeb satellite for 2 days
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Eutelsat 's OneWeb satellite broadband service that covers much of Europe , Africa , Asia and the Americas was hit with a 48-hour power outage.
The company didn’t account for the extra day in 2024 in at least one of their systems.
The origin of the leap year , which adds one day to the end of February once every four years , dates back to 46 B.C. An astronomer named Sosigenes of Alexandria told Julius Caesar that the tropical year (or the solar year ) lasted about 365 days .
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