A NASA satellite considered ‘dead’ for more than a decade has been found to be still functioning, the US space agency said on Wednesday. The identity of the satellite re-discovered on January 20 has been confirmed as the Imager for NASA’s Magnetopause-to- Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE). The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in the US successfully collected telemetry data from the satellite. The signal showed that the space craft ID was 166 - the ID for IMAGE, NASA said. After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on January 20, his initial research suggested it was IMAGE - a NASA mission launched into orbit around Earth on March 25, 2000.

Source: Hindustan Times January 31, 2018 07:30 UTC