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Amateur Astronomer Discovers Long-Dead NASA Satellite Has Come Back To Life (behindtheblack.com)
schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: In his hunt to locate Zuma, an amateur astronomer has discovered that a long-dead NASA satellite, designed to study the magnetosphere, has come back to life. IMAGE went dead in 2005, and though NASA thought it might come back to life after experiencing a total eclipse in 2007 that would force a reboot, no evidence of life was seen then. It now appears that the satellite came to life sometime between then and 2018, and was chattering away at Earth waiting for a response. NASA is now looking at what it must do to take control of the spacecraft and resume science operations. Zuma is the secret U.S. government payload that was launched by SpaceX earlier this month and reportedly lost. As for why Scott Tilley -- the amateur radio astronomer -- decided to have a look for the present of secret military satellites, Ars Technica reports that he apparently does this semi-regularly as a hobby and, in this case, was inspired by the Zuma satellite.
Pots frist.
It's a neato satellite, check out what it does. VLF radio is relatively unexplored. And the aurora pics are magnificent!!
This is a very interesting find.
Apparently NASA will try to contact the satellite using the Deep Space Network, and assess it's condition.
Right now JPL is in the process of digging up the 13-year old "owner's manual" :-)
This guy aint gonna get any sleep for a bit...
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Finding that would be like a shot of Oxi... ohhh the endorphins :P
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masquerading as a long dead NASA satellite.
I totally misread the headline and thought WTF?
I first read the headline as: Amateur astronomer discovered long dead by NASA satellite brought back to life.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
So, you "lose" your stealth satellite and then suddenly find one that has been dead for over a decade...
It would likely cost very little more to add the functions of an old satellite to your new stealth satellite's capabilities and duplicate its signals. The real data could be getting sent by laser or other less detectable means. Just saying.
... that you will not like what you’d hear.
That is either because you want to oppress the bearer of the secret,
or because he wants to harm you.
Which might both be true at the same time, depending on the perspective.
I'd say it's pretty clear cut in everything related to spying though.
Because an enemy is just an ally you failed to win over.
Which might be, that he's not only a dick to you, but that you're just as much a dick to him, making you exactly the same. (Yep, including the "But my side is more righteous! And he did it first!” arguments. They all believe that.)
(Or it might be that they're mentally ill... like religious or following any -ism. But so might you. Because the problem with that state is, that one can't tell from the inside.)
In the end ... I'm just saying: It's a dick move.
Special agent Jack Bauer will probably want to ask him is frequently asked questions of "WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR!?" and "WHERE ARE THE WMDS!?"
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Speed reading side effect. Scrambling the sequence of words and making you read the first word of the sentence again.
Before all the beards came of age we just called them Ham Radio Operators. They're always raising the level. Glad to see the name promotion and the hobby once again verifying how well spent the frequencies protected and allocated to the service are.
"Scott Tilley VE7TIL / VA7LF discovered a signal from the IMAGE satellite that NASA lost contact with in 2005"
http://www.southgatearc.org/ne...
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In the sentence "decided to have a look for the present of secret military satellites", Ed should prolly change "present" to "presence".
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
We now know its communications specs http://pluto.space.swri.edu/IM... and as it was made in the year 2000... NASA has most likely already made the communications protocols, if not the software itself, available to the public. NASA also doesn't have a timetable on reaquiring it, its orbit telemetry was linked in a comment, and this community probably has a few people who can slap an arduino based orbital tracking antenna together... but no one here would want a global observatory satillite or offworld server, right?
I think we just discovered the oldest human fossil outside Africa.
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/J... Engineers at GSFC have acquired the suspect S-band source using the 4m CTA (Compatibility Test Antenna) here at GSFC (.jpg attached and no I’m not in the picture). They acquired the signal while the target was on ascent at about 2RE. Center frequency (CF) was between 2272.478 and 2273.418. The difference between IMAGE documented CF of 2272.5Mhz can be attributed to expected Doppler. Subcarriers are visible as well 1.7Mhz from CF as expected. The signal strength was oscillating. Plots will be forthcoming. The oscillation is not unexpected given IMAGE’s loss of spin balance. All indications so far suggest that this is, in fact, IMAGE. Richard J. Burley
jeez man, he was thinking out loud, does he have to preverify check every thought before posting on here?
Then most posts would be dead boring, like this...
Had a thought, but its probly wrong... so I will abort my comment and just say...... :thumbsup:
of this amateur astronomer made me wonder what am I doing with my life?
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
https://youtu.be/2UZejartABA?t=76
I guess he's "suicidal" now. But, if an amateur astronomer can find a NASA satellite this easily (and identify it?), if he does find Zuma, I want to know how he would know it in the first place.
It's got to be V'Ger
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
it's a stealth one, it just decided it wasn't doing it's job correctly if anyone could spot it.
This explains what happened to me after the eclipse last summer.
It is not a "fossil" if its still alive Well perhaps with the noticeable exception of my great aunt
Fuck you Chink. YOU are the problem. IE: Nobody pisses in my streets but its a national pastime for you.
Not sure why "Has come back to life" links to a 1 paragraph blog post, on a page begging for donations no less, than then links to the actual story: https://skyriddles.wordpress.c...