Dead” Spacecraft Still Transmitting, Agency Confirms
Amateur astronomer and electrical technologist Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal on January 20, 2018, while scanning radio frequencies from his home in British Columbia, eventually tracing it to spacecraft 26113, the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, better known as IMAGE. Contact with the satellite was lost on December 18, 2005, and attempts to recover … Read more