[SFDXA] Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator

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  Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator

National Public Radio (NPR) reports radio amateur *Scott Tilley VE7TIL / 
VA7LF* has received a signal from a geostationary military satellite 
that was launched in 1967

The broadcaster says:

Recently, Tilley got interested in a communications satellite he thought 
might still be alive — or at least among the living dead. LES-5, built 
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, was 
launched in 1967.

Tilley was inspired by another amateur who in 2016 had found LES-1, an 
earlier satellite built by the same lab. What was intriguing to him 
about LES-5 was that if it was still working, it might be the oldest 
functioning satellite still in geostationary orbit.

By scouring the Internet, he found a paper describing the radio 
frequency that LES-5, an experimental military UHF communications 
satellite, should be operating on — if it was still alive. So he decided 
to have a look.

Listen to and read the full NPR story
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843493304/long-lost-u-s-military-satellite-found-by-amateur-radio-operator