So a cable breaks and they lose contact with nearly all their civilian satellites and the space station?....
Dont mean to be a bit doom-tardy or a sensationalist but I find it hard to believe that something so important as access to virtually their entire satellite network and their space station has a weak point like A SINGLE CABLE that all comm's are routed through, that if broken brings the lot down. I mean surely for something so important there's backups... and backups to the backups?
Now I'm fairly sure that if it was some muffa-fukka of all cosmic events or similar then it wouldn't just be Russia's satellites that would have gone down, the whole sha'bang would be dark by now, but their excuse still don't wash with me.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 26336125 YEP this is hard to believe.
I`m a sparky, I`ve built quite a few data centers, internet backbone switch buildings and NASA communications.
Every one has redundent systems.
Electrical back up consists of DC battery banks, uninteruptable power supply`s, huge cat generators X3 all with autamatic transfer switching that keeps power flowing before even a 60cycle per second interuption can happen.
All communication lines are redundent incoming to the switches and outgoing.
Air conditioning is redundant too lol.
Just doesn`t seem plausable..
