Why did the UK’s oldest space satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?

Someone transmitted the oldest satellite in the UK and it seems that there is no record for anyone, when, or why.

SkyNet-1a was launched in 1969, just a few months after the first people placed on the moon, SkyNet-1a was placed higher than the eastern coast of Africa to transport communications to the British forces.

When the spacecraft stopped working a few years later, it was expected to pull the gravity to the east, outside the Indian Ocean.

But today, it is strange that Skynet-1a is actually half a planet, in a position of 22369 miles (36,000 km) over the Americas.

Tropical mechanics means that the military spacecraft is unlikely to be half tons, simply drifting to its current location.

Almost certain, she ordered fire in the mid -seventies of the twentieth century to take it west. The question is who was that and with what authority and goal?

It is interesting that the main information about biological national security assets can only evaporate. However, aside magic, you may also reasonably ask why it’s still important. After all, we have been talking about some neglected garbage from space for 50 years.

“This is still relevant because those who moved SkyNet-1A did some services,” says Dr. Stewart Evez, space counselor.

“It is now in what we call” Gravity well “on the western length line 105 degrees, and wanders back and forward like marble at the bottom of a bowl. Unfortunately, this approaches the movement of other satellites regularly.

He explains: “Because he is dead, the danger is that it may collide with something, and because it is” our moon “that we are still responsible for,” he explains.

Dr. Evs looked through the old satellite catalogs, national archives and spoke to satellite experts around the world, but he could not find any evidence of the end of life behavior of the oldest spacecraft in Britain.

It may be tempting to reach conspiracy theory or two, not the least of which because it is difficult to hear the name “Skynet” without thinking about the malicious artificial intelligence system that realizes the self (AI) in the Terminator.

But there is no connection other than the name, and in any case, real life is always more exciting.

What we know is that SkyNet-1A was manufactured in the United States by Philco Ford Aerospace, which has now ended and placed in space by the Delta missile in the US Air Force.

“The first satellite in SkyNet has revolutionized the ability of communications in the UK, which allowed London to communicate safely with British forces away like Singapore. However, from a technological point of view, SkyNet-1A was more American than the British since the United States built it And I launched it, “Dr. Aaron Batman noticed in a modern paper about the history of the Skynet program, which is now in the fifth generation.

This opinion was confirmed by Graham Davuson, who flew SkyNet-1A in the early 1970s of its UK Operations Center in RAF Oakhanger in Hampshire.

“The Americans originally took control of the satellite in orbit. They have tested all our programs against their programs, before they eventually surrendered to control of the British Royal Air Force,” the retired engineer has long told me.

“In essence, there was dual control, but when or why Skynet -1A has been delivered to the Americans, which seems likely – I am afraid to remember,” says Davison, who is now in his eighties. .

Rachel Hill, a doctoral student from the University of London University, was roaming the national archives.

Her readings led her to one very reasonable possibility.

“Skynet from Oakhanger will go to the USAF satellite facility in Sunnyvale (known as colloquially as the blue cube) and Skynet works during” Oakout “. This was when the control was temporarily transferred to the United States while Oakhanger had fallen for basic maintenance. This step could occur. Next?

SkyNet-1A mode records, although they are incomplete, indicate that the final leader in the hands of the Americans was left when Okhaneger lost the satellite in June 1977.

But despite the transformation of SkyNet-1a to its current location, it was finally allowed to die in an embarrassing place when it should have been truly placed in a “tropical cemetery”.

This refers to a higher area in the sky where the ancient space scrap runs any danger of going into active contacts.

The cemetery is now standard, but in the seventies of the last century, no one thought about the sustainability of space.

The situations have changed since then because the space field has increased its congestion.

At 105 degrees west of length, the active satellite may see a piece of garbage 50 km from its location up to four times a day.

This may seem to be anywhere near each other, but at speeds, these shameful creatures move, as she began to get close to rest.

The Ministry of Defense said that SkyNet-1A was constantly monitored by the National Space Operations Center in the United Kingdom. Other satellite operators are informed if there is possible that there is a particularly close correlation, in the case of eliminating dodging measures.

In the end, the British government may have to consider removing the old satellite to a safer location.

Techniques are developed to seize the left scrap in space.

Indeed, the UK space agency funds efforts to do so at low altitudes, and the Americans and Chinese have shown that it could weigh the elderly even in the type of high orbit that SkyNet-1A occupies.

“S pieces of space garbage resemble labels. “I noticed Moriba Jah, professor of air space engineering at the University of Texas,” Istan University of Austas. “

“We need to avoid what I call super publishing events. When these things explode or collide, it generates thousands of pieces of debris that then becomes dangerous to something else we care about.”