Oops: Baikonur crew drops weather satellite, damage unknown
Satellite-handlers at Baikonur accidentally dropped the MetOp-A weather satellite, according to reports dated Saturday. How much (if any) damage the satellite suffered is still unknown. Link. Some butterfingers at Lockheed Martin dropped a similarly instrumented weather satellite back in 2003.
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