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Interesting Global [email protected]English • 3 days ago

Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why

www.bbc.com

Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why

www.bbc.com

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Interesting Global [email protected]English • 3 days ago

Skynet-1A: Why did the UK's oldest space satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?

www.bbc.com

Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it.

Britain’s oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one’s really sure who moved it.

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Russia or China, to test it.

My opinion.

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