...on Followups, Necessity Of

It appears that the solar-sail satellite did not blow up and made it safely into orbit but is not responding to ground commands. Time will tell, but dead space probes have a bad record of springing to life.

Also, Steve Gilliard reports from the New York Post, that the fragging incident might be a purely criminal matter, unrelated to morale failure. Still pretty bad, but not as bad as I originally thought.