That threat is evident in the low-key offices of Space Command, where personnel know that one consequence of a satellite ...

Black Arrow rocket on display at the Science Museum, London. (Image credit: author) Britain’s first military satellite, Skynet 1A, was launched in 1969 on board a U.S. Delta M rocket.

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Recently, the BBC reported as a curiosity of space travel that someone had moved the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, from its original location, but no one now knows who, when or why. The ...

A dead British satellite launched in 1969 is now posing a threat to modern spaceflight. Skynet-1A drifted over 22,300 miles from a graveyard position into an area with active satellite traffic.

Skynet-1A, manufactured in the U.S., launched on board the U.S. Air Force’s Delta rocket. In fact, when it first launched, the U.S. tested the satellite in space before handing control over to ...

Skynet-1A's origins trace back to the United States, where it was produced by Philco Ford aerospace company, which is no longer operational. The satellite's journey to space was facilitated by a ...

Graham Davison, who operated Skynet- 1A from RAF Oakhanger in the early 1970s and is now in his 80’s, stated that while the Americans originally controlled the satellite in orbit, it was ...

The UK's oldest satellite has moved and no one appears to know exactly who did it, when or why. Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, is now around half a planet away from where it was launched ...

Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why. Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was ...