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Cold-war tactics ain't ded yet!

..."The Russian space chief said he had no explanation to frequent space project failures",...“I don’t want to make any accusations, but today there is powerful equipment to influence spacecrafts, and the possibility of their use should not be ruled out,” he said."...

From an article on the Novosti-site about upcoming investigation on the Phobos-Grunt spaceship that crashed in the Pacific Ocean near Chili yesterday

Russia was well aware of Phobos-Grunt mission risks - space chief