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The fate of the dislodged primary: I've wrapped it and taped it as best we can, so it can be installed back in the OTA and shipped onward.

We had two other hardware failures: one telescope drive motor was unreliable, and one CCD never worked from the start. Fortunately, we had just a single failure of each, so this telescope was the designated spare-parts system.