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From: Houston, TX
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posted 08-08-2013 01:07 PM               

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Reading the quotes within the context of Lopatin's other comments, I think he is saying that it wasn't the case of a worker forcing a sensor into a configuration in which it couldn't be installed, or which would show up as installed incorrectly in a pre-flight test, but rather the case of the sensor being designed in such a way that that it could be oriented in more than one direction.

Hence the action going forward is not to change installation procedures, but to redesign the sensor so it can only be installed in the proper orientation.

(That's assuming the translation is accurate.)

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posted 09-30-2013 08:48 AM               

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Proton has returned to flight successfully:

The Proton M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 5:38 pm EDT Sunday (2138 GMT Sunday, 3:38 am local time Monday), carrying the Astra 2E satellite for SES.

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