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Amateur Finds Lost NASA Satellite

Accepted submission by Thexalon at 2018-01-31 19:33:59 from the its-not-aliens dept.
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Amateur satellite enthusiast Scott Tilley was searching the sky for spy satellites to track when he discovered an unknown object [wordpress.com]. That object identified itself as the NASA IMAGE [eoportal.org] satellite, thought to have become non-operational in 2005. NASA has since confirmed that the satellite is indeed IMAGE, and is now planning on using it to observe the magnetosphere near the northern magnetic pole.

Another enthusiast, Cees Bassa, added his own detailed analysis of the error and how it recovered [eoportal.org].


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