FLASH: Russia loses contact with most of its civilian satellites, International Space Station after cable breaks: RIA News Agency!!!

Exactly.

One cable takes 48 hours to replace?.

A guarantee you the Russian Military satelites are also down. Right on time for Israel to launch agressian in Gaza.

Egypt is now on full alert to.

Is it all becoming more plausible now?

Expect some movement in the Russian Defense forces soon and escalation in the Middle East. Right now the Bear may be blinded. We shall see what moves are going to be made.

This should be interresting!

nothing sucks like 'electrolux'


I once knew a girl who went by the nickname of 'Electrolux'

Blinded by the Light!

he still likes honey and bees ;-)

commercial coaxial cable isnt just some hobby stuff like LMR400, the center conductor is more or less a pipe, and it is VERY hard to replace

here is what it looks like

[link to us.123rf.com]

How does a cable like that get accidentaly cut? Where are the redundancies?

I hope you are right.

We had some dumbass run over some and ruin the shielding last year on a station I do tower work for... There should be redundancy in contacting many of teh sattleites though, but to actually control them there usually isnt for security reasons, but like I said earlier, the APRS digipeater on the ISS never went down, I heard it on 2 ISS passes today after this thread was started and it was fully functional

We have a winner!!!! The magic word is redundancies!

There are many and that is why this story smells so funny...

So you say, your probably right but there is no need to repeat yourself. Now about the magnetic field disturbance.....

recalibrate the X37B targeting laser system for the tungsten rods from orbital weapon system GLASS and acquire new target...

If you want to hear it for youself just use a 2 meter radio on 145.825mhz

or view who has contacted it here [link to www.ariss.net]

on the bottom below the maps are the times and stations

Looks like UHF/SAT type Heliax to me. A simple compression type connector and splice should get it up with not much db loss until a more permanent solution is doable.

Originally published Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 7:40 AM


Russia: Cable cut not affecting space station
A communications cable serving the Russian space agency's mission control was cut by construction workers but the accident has not affected the International Space Station or civilian satellites, the U.S. and Russian space agencies said Wednesday.

The Associated Press

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MOSCOW —
A communications cable serving the Russian space agency's mission control was cut by construction workers but the accident has not affected the International Space Station or civilian satellites, the U.S. and Russian space agencies said Wednesday.

Russian news agencies cited unnamed sources as saying the cut meant controllers could not send commands to satellites or the Russian segments of the orbiting space lab. But Alexei Kuznetsov, a spokesman for the Roscosmos space agency, said communications were continuing by other means, which he did not specify.

Josh Byerly, a spokesman for the U.S. space agency NASA, said the Russian space program had another ground communications site in operation and was communicating with the space station via Johnson Space Center in Houston without problems.

A Soyuz space capsule is to ferry three astronauts from the station back to Earth on Monday. Kuznetsov said the accident did not affect that plan.

The Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed Defense Ministry official as saying military satellites were under control.

Possibly, but as you know being a ham CE1, the jump in SWR if it was transmitting while the line was caught would cause a huge jump in SWR possibly blowing out the finals on the transmitter

im sure putins monitoring the situation

Wind-in cables come a close second to the adjustable headlamp on the front!

[link to www.secretsofthefed.com]

Holy Shit. Is CNN Russian owned because it just went off the air !
Not kidding.

My informations is that repair not complete in 48 hours. This is contracted hours but nature of damage to infrastructure causing collapse by roadworks mean much longer time required.

I've never seen that many spikes at one time on the meteor detection site.. Now, granted, I just discovered this site a couple of months ago... but WOW!!!

Can anyone with more experience at this site tell us if they've seen this straight row of high spikes in the meteor detector site before?

Yikes! I sure hope the guys on the space station are ok.

Boo Hoo, I am crying, someone please hand me kleenex.

I didn't know there was a meteor detection site, has it been around a long time?

We talked about this on the last page. Look at the bottom right of your link. See the difference? Their system works in a similar way to Doppler, using radio signals that bounce back. No width on the reading means the "object" has no size. Therefore, they are catching some other signal.

KILLSHOT RED ALERT

I'm probably using the wrong terminology for this... but there is a site that detects incoming meteors, trash and whatever else. At work right now, can’t look it up.

Ah... thanks for the explanation.

don't know. cable's out.

Houston to take control of ISS. Cables were running through sewers collapsed by highway maintenance. Will take 48 hours just to examine the extent of the damage. Much talk in Russia of why no redundancy for critical infrastructure that could compromise the ISS.