A satellite thats been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be.
Even more curiously, it may have been the Americans.
Instead, someone purposely fired the satellites thrusters to move it westward.
A UK satellite turned up somewhere it shouldn’t be.Getty Images
Skynet-1A, manufactured in the U.S., launched on board the U.S. Air Forces Delta rocket.
The Department of Defenses global Space Surveillance online grid is currentlytrackingmore than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris.
Orbital debris wasnt a pressing issue when Skynet-1A first launched, but it has certainly become one today.
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