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NASA loses contact with ISS after power outage in Texas, uses backup system for first time
(www.euronews.com)
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As fun as it is to shit on ERCOT, this was due to internal issues at Johnson space center.
There were upgrades going on, with backup plans in place.
They were notified of the outage via roscosmos within 20m, and were running from the backup system within 90m.
All in the article