Van took a deep breath. "Ionized dust seeks equilibrium, to balance that electric charge. So the dust will settle wherever the fields on the spacecraft guide it." Van removed an extremely secret printout from the case. He ran his finger across the schematics. "That means you’re getting a cloud of filth on the KH-13’s sensor booms, the edges of the chassis, and especially right about here. This highly charged area, just at the rim of the Mylar insulation. There’s a big component there, under the skin of the hull. It’s an MIL-STD-1541, Taiwanese capacitor. Just like this component in this case."