Megan Garber of The Atlantic: "While doing repair work on the Shchyolkovsky Highway outside of Moscow, a construction team severed a cable. And it turned out, unfortunately, to be the cable — the one linking Moscow's Mission Control to the nation's extraterrestrial vehicles and workers."
Construction crew cuts a cable, Russia loses access to all its satellites
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