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Cut Cable Severs Russian Link with International Space Station, Satellites

Moscow Mission Control lost contact with civilian satellites after a cable was accidentally cut (Credits: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Rodionov).

Shortly after the successful November 14 launch of their sixth Meridian dual use communication satellite, Moscow Mission Control lost contact. With everything. Construction workers had severed a communications cable outside the building, resulting in a Mission Control unable to send commands to any of its satellites or the Russian segment of the International Space Station. State news agency RIA Novosti originally [...]

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