It took them all night. Word on the street is that Optus was attempting some in orbit manouvering that went badly wrong resulting in the spacecraft pointing away from the earth. They had problems getting the one remaining operational SCP to accept TT&C intstructions. The question is how much propellent they consumed in the process - B1 is rumored to be low on propellent before this episode.<br /><br />The SkyNZ people must be really unhappy after last years SCP failure.<br /><br />Wonder what Optus will do ........ next week should be interesting.......