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Russia Loses Connection with Its Satellites

A severed communications cable near Moscow has rendered specialists unable to control most of Russia's civilian satellites, a source in the space industry said.

"Communications have been lost between civilian ground-based tracking, command and control stations," the source told RIA Novosti.

Source: UPI. Read full article. (link)

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