Earth Outside the Cable Lab

A two-storey research complex where heavy cables are designed, tested and watched over, with wiring bundles running through the floors between the rooms. Upstairs on the left, a man in a flight jacket sorts small parts on a steel table beneath model satellites and an orbit chart. In the middle room two scientists in white coats study a twisted cable sample, with pliers, hooks and rings hanging overhead and framed diagrams of cable cores on the walls. On the right a man rests on a sofa with a tablet, a big window full of Earth beside him. Downstairs, three workers in hard hats and yellow vests inspect a huge cable clamped in a test rig, while two operators in the control room read dials and notebooks. Earth glowing in the big window and the yellow vests downstairs give the station two bright points to steer by.