an amateur looking for ZUMA -- the super secret spy satellite that supposedly failed to deploy (I don't believe it) -- found instead a satellite that NASA lost contact with 13 years ago is phoning home, the IMAGE satellite, which studied the magnetosphere and global wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAGE
NASA is currently trying to find the manual, basically, to see if they can establish contact
https://skyriddles.wordpress.com/2018/0 ... -is-alive/
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2018/0192.html
pretty neat
Amateur radio astronomer finds lost satellite
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Amateur radio astronomer finds lost satellite
by John Galt » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:35 am
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Re: Amateur radio astronomer finds lost satellite
by spacemonkey » Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:35 pm
The satellite probably always knew where it was, we didn't. So we were the ones lost. But glad it was re found,lol.
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by The Comrade » Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:03 pm
That was a great documentary
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Re: Amateur radio astronomer finds lost satellite
by John Galt » Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:15 pm
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by The Comrade » Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:21 pm
tangentially related but remember when i used to make fun of exploited for pulling stuff from reddit and he'd get really mad? that was fun.
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Re: Amateur radio astronomer finds lost satellite
by The Comrade » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:58 am
tyson really is a gigantic prick though
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