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It started up fine. The multimeter was connecting up the telemetry, so they weren't getting any information from it until they restored that circuit.

The power absolutely did feed into that circuit, they were trying to decide if it would have damaged it (but a motor driver is going to be able to handle power coming from the motor, so they decided that it probably didn't damage it).

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That is my reading too. But why was the multimeter connecting up telemetry? That seems very strange to me.

According to the article, it was monitoring bus voltage, but I could imagine it was used to measure the current being used by the telemetry system. So if it was used as an ammeter, it would've been placed in series.

I assume it was wired up in series to measure current.

> It started up fine.

Thanks. I understand that better now. The spacecraft did start up, but it seemed as if it could be badly damaged because they were not receiving any telemetry data

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