The funniest thing about this "anomoly report" of an accident that resulted in catastrophic damage to a weather satellite before it even left the lab is the official language. A more proper example of cover-thine-ass beaurocratese I have not seen.

Satellites do a lot of things really well. Bouncing isn't one of them.

Reminds me of another incident I remember from AvWeek, probably a year ago. Someone forgot to un-bolt the cover used to protect the cargo (nose) section of a Delta V (I think) rocket that was already bolted to the launch pad. When the crane try to pull it off, the entire rocket came unstrung. The description sounded very much like what happens when you pull straight up on a "bendy" straw. Well, a "bendy" straw that cost ~ 40 million bucks.