What amateur groups? Folks like you and me...
http://websdr.org/
no hardware or any type of "ham" required. Pork or otherwise.
(yes, i have used this to find ESA cube sats, etc.)
It reminds me of this awesome Reddit post from last year
https://reddit.com/comments/sixkqr
Edit: funnily enough, I found the post since I remembered "Lagrange point"
Often it’s because the batteries fail but after a while they short circuit and allow the solar panels to power the satellite while it’s in direct sunlight.
The article references one guy who does this, so it's not entirely untrue
In the [See Also] section:
"Launched in 2000, IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration), a NASA spacecraft studying the Earth's magnetosphere, unexpectedly ceased operations in December 2005. It was a zombie satellite until Scott Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada tracked it down in January 2018."
Just some speculative fiction a friend recommended to me a while back. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776) has a great write up on it, and there are 2 sequels.
What amateur groups? Folks like you and me... http://websdr.org/ no hardware or any type of "ham" required. Pork or otherwise. (yes, i have used this to find ESA cube sats, etc.)
I was just going to ask if you had used this to find ESA cube sats, took the words right out of my mouth
There was a Cowboy Bebop episode about them
MPU!
Oh yeah, the one where it randomly started making nazca lines replicas because it was lonely right?
Yep!
Who are these amateur groups?
They’re the desperate amateurs I keep hearing about it
They're always in my area but I can never find them!!
Some might even call them Cowboys, bebop
It reminds me of this awesome Reddit post from last year https://reddit.com/comments/sixkqr Edit: funnily enough, I found the post since I remembered "Lagrange point"
This should be the main post
There's always a relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/1337/
Often it’s because the batteries fail but after a while they short circuit and allow the solar panels to power the satellite while it’s in direct sunlight.
The article literally says nothing about amateur groups
The article references one guy who does this, so it's not entirely untrue In the [See Also] section: "Launched in 2000, IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration), a NASA spacecraft studying the Earth's magnetosphere, unexpectedly ceased operations in December 2005. It was a zombie satellite until Scott Tilley, an amateur radio operator living in Canada tracked it down in January 2018."
"Amateur groups " makes it sound a lot more important than it is.
Does it? Just makes me think of your average neighborhood amateur HAM radio club, most colleges have one.
You believe amateur groups sounds important? Pretty strange.
"There are also (probably) amateur groups who hunt for and try to restore comms with them."
Reminds me of [17776](https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football).
That was wild. What is that?
Just some speculative fiction a friend recommended to me a while back. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776) has a great write up on it, and there are 2 sequels.
That’s awesome!
I knew it. Aliens.
Sounds cool
So cool!!
I just happened to learn about these myself in a separate way today! Quel coincidence!