Posted on 05/27/2019 7:13:08 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer
O V A L T I N E
So where is this thing? Is it in orbit, or is it in deep space?
Clint Eastwood denies fiddling around with it.
But he would say that, it’s classified.
Got to be high orbit or it would have burned years ago. They've got to boost the space station higher every other year or so to keep it up.
Curious as to if the damaged Ionosphere has regenerated after 50+ years?
This is actually an article from november 2016, some parasite website mislabel the date to get hits
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2244633/abandoned-us-satellite-starts-transmitting-after-50-years/
For Sale:
Set of Solar panels, approximately 20 pounds, in good working order with only 6.8 billion miles on them
As is, Where is
Free to a good home
“Most Illogical.”
Live Long and Prosper.
Hopefully not Nomad
LEO orbit — circular orbit ~2800km apogee/perigee with a period of 145 minutes — should be up for a few more years.
When David Vincent finds out about this there could be another episode of “The Invaders” 1967 is perfect timing for the series.
I'm fishing to see if a Freeper has the facts on this as I lack faith in "trusted sources". Thanks, guys, on the 'old news' alert.
RF is magic
I’ve always called it
“The Art of Radio”.
When I saw a Physical Radio
Wavelength chart in tech
School and made a Full
Wave length antenna from
Copper Wire
I became a Guru.
This can get you there.
Let us know if you pick it up.
https://www.pe0sat.vgnet.nl/satellite/sat-history/les-1/
1/4 wave E-W did fine for detecting sputnik 1957
There’s no truth to the rumor that the satellite has been transmitting old reruns of I Love Lucy for the past 50 years.
Nomad
I hope not. I share Hawking’s opinion that we shouldn’t be transmitting anything because receivers may be far advanced AND hostile.
The ionosphere would quickly recover. But they wanted communication unaffected by disturbances, and that is a role for satellites.
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