An amateur astronomer has made contact with a long-lost NASA satellite

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Signal detected by amateur astronomer came from long-lost satellite, NASA confirms

An amateur astronomer has made contact with a long-lost NASA satellite, the agency announced Tuesday (Jan. 30). The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite was launched in March 2000, and exceeded its initial two-year mission by operating through 2005. However, NASA controllers lost contact with the satellite in December 2005, bringing the mission to an abrupt end.
 
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