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DIRECTV avoided loss of service to its more than 3.7 million customers when a spacecraft control processor aboard the DBS-1 satellite failed July 4. A spare processor took over control of the Hughes HS 601 spacecraft when the primary processor failed, and the satellite continued to operate normally...
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