Why did the UK's first satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?

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

By: BBC News

Nov 10 2024
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Why did the UK's first satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been? — Why did the UK's first satelli

Artwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969
Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.
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Why did the UK's first satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?

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