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+- Keep the orbital cockpit's sensor strip steady through a zoom step, load the
+  satellite owner flags at startup from one generated 15 KB sheet, and name
+  "Place names" in the loading status while the place-name packs load on first
+  lookup (Sameh Khamis, @samehkhamis, #1637).