OSCAR 7 is Alive

AB3A writes :"Originally launched November 15, 1974, OSCAR 7 was long thought to be dead from natural causes (radiation, battery failure, space junk, etc.). However, AMSAT reports that it has recently been heard on the air! This probably isn't a record, but it does rank right up there with spacecraft such as Pioneer. I wonder how many other satellites out there have been given up for dead but are still functional at some reduced capacity?"

Comments

Oh, shit

[Snafoo]

Here we go again.

Someone prepare a bald-headed chick and a transporter beam... 'ocar' is back.

Re:the real thing?

[Red_Winestain]

As Sherlock Holmes was fond of saying, "once you have ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be correct."

But as Dirk Gently rejoins, "I reject that entirely...The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."