1.   Even tiny pieces can cause a satellite to fail or break fuel lines and other sensitive equipment.

2.   Hughes had component failures in six satellites in orbit in the last year, though only the paging satellite failed completely.

3.   Perhaps the satellites had failed to capture the Bosnian Serb exhumations because they either passed overhead at the wrong time or could not see through clouds.

4.   Satellites mysteriously failed in orbit.

5.   In other Russian space news Sunday, officials said that a Kosmos satellite had failed to reach its proper orbit because of a second-stage rocket malfunction.

6.   Japanese satellite fails to achieve orbit.

7.   Two other experimental satellites have reportedly failed to properly orbit the earth.

8.   The satellite failed to fire Tuesday because of engine troubles.

9.   The dish-shaped Wake Shield satellite failed to distribute atomic arsenic, needed to manufacture ultra-thin and pure semiconductor films.