studiot Posted November 9 Posted November 9 Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwrr58801yo
swansont Posted November 9 Posted November 9 there should be more content/context posted —- “Almost certainly, it was commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s to take it westwards. The question is who that was and with what authority and purpose? It's intriguing that key information about a once vital national security asset can just evaporate.” Not so intriguing, IMO. It’s been ~50 years. Paper records get lost. Storage gets moved to new locations. Computer systems get upgraded, and probably multiple times. If they were computerized, what medium was used? Almost certain to be obsolete today. Lots of personnel turnover; institutional knowledge gets lost. If this was a dead satellite, nobody was around to continually refresh memories.
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