Posted on 11/10/2024 4:04:26 PM PST by BenLurkin
Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.
Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces.
When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later, gravity might have been expected to pull it even further to the east, out over the Indian Ocean.
But today, curiously, Skynet-1A is actually half a planet away, in a position 22,369 miles (36,000km) above the Americas.
Orbital mechanics mean it's unlikely the half-tonne military spacecraft simply drifted to its current location.
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?
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"It's now in what we call a 'gravity well' at 105 degrees West longitude, wandering backwards and forwards like a marble at the bottom of a bowl. And unfortunately this brings it close to other satellite traffic on a regular basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
Where was Dr Strangelove at the time?
Don’t rat me out!
Call Saul Musk.....
Maybe it still works and they were always spying with it after its useful life as a communications satellite…?
The commands must have been spoofed from an unauthorized ground command centre.
This untraceable secrecy is the hallmark of a certain Dr. No, associated with the international terrorist organization known as SPECTRE...
At the rate of current decay of the UK, their own satellite will outlive their country.
“I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens”
Could be, but easier to blame it on the old standby, PUTIN!!!
WHERES_MY_CHEESE_PING!
Something Torchwood would have done and kept ultra secret.
I’m not saying it was aliens but it was aliens
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Are you sure they up there legally?
“...commanded to fire its thrusters in the mid-1970s...”
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It moved 50 years ago and they just now noticed?
British bureaucracy at its finest.
Look I was just trying to get a better connection. That is all. Everyone just needs to calm down and let me work. I will try to put it back where I found it.
Or Trump
Though it no longer works for the UK, perhaps it works for someone else. Hacked?
LOL!
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