Russia loses contact with satellites, space station - RIA
Published: Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012 | 9:15 AM ET Text Size
MOSCOW - Russia has lost contact with most of its civilian satellites as well as the Russian part of the International Space Station after a communications cable broke in Moscow, state-run RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source.

RIA cited the source as saying it would take at least 48 hours to fix the cable.

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