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[i]"It sounds like the spacecraft has gone into a safe mode," commented British propulsion expert Alan Lawrie from Astrium UK. "These spacecraft do that if they hit these types of problems. It's a mode whereby the spacecraft knows it cannot do itself any harm, and that gives controllers on the ground the time to get the spacecraft back into the right configuration and to do the correct manoeuvres."[/i]
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