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Operation XYLOPHONE PETUNIA
Your two-minute background briefing: in 1965 a satellite designated LES1 (Lincoln Experimental Satellite) was launched, ostensibly to place it in an elliptical orbit around the Earth. It instead went into circular orbit, reportedly provided good data anyway, then ‘died’ after a couple of years. Fast forward to 2013, when a British amateur radio astronomer detected renewed transmissions coming from LES1, apparently due to a complicated set of conditions on the derelict satellite.
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