Scientists baffled after UK satellite ends up 1,000s of miles away - no one knows why

 Scientists baffled after UK satellite ends up 1,000s of miles away - no one knows 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. The spacecraft stopped working years ago, and conventional wisdom would suggest that the Earth's gravitational pull would move it eastwards over the Indian Ocean, but the opposite has happened. The satellite is now halfway around the world above the Americas, baffling scientists who insist that orbital mechanics mean it is unlikely that the half-tonne spacecraft would have simply drifted to its current position. This leads to the conclusion that it was intentionally moved, but nobody can say who would want or be able to do such a thing.

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