2003-02-20

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..reaches geostationary orbit - from total loss to full recovery.. "In all, about 20% of the original spacecraft control software had to be modified. Thanks to the reprogrammable onboard control concept, these modifications could be loaded by uplinking to the satellite software "patches" amounting in total to 15 000 words, the largest reprogramming of flight software ever done on a telecommunications satellite." Yay!!..Hack of the Year (so far..)...