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NASA Unexpectedly Loses Contact With ISS

Newsweek

By Jess Thompson

July 27, 2023

The International Space Station (ISS) was left without a way to communicate with NASA temporarily on Tuesday after a power outage struck ground control.

NASA’s Mission Control in Houston, Texas, experienced a power blackout for around 90 minutes at 8 a.m. local time, briefly losing communications with the ISS’s astronauts, forcing them to use backup power systems in order to re-establish contact.

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