When a satellite dies, the laws of orbital mechanics dictate its eternal dance through space. Skynet-1A should have drifted steadily eastward after it stopped functioning. Instead, sometime in the mid ...

That threat is evident in the low-key offices of Space Command, where personnel know that one consequence of a satellite being destroyed is that the timing signal for financial transactions would ...

The communications and service modules of the UK's future Skynet 6A military communications satellite have been successfully coupled, in a milestone at the National ...

Skynet 2B, again launched on a Delta rocket, was the next successful Skynet communications satellite.

Defence corporation Babcock has raised its full-year revenue and profit forecasts as its Nuclear and Marine divisions experience a surge in business. The FTSE 250 company announced on Thursday that it ...

The tabloids were amused that nobody knows who moved Skynet-1A to its current position. But there is a permanent threat of disaster there.

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.

BBC reporter Jonathan Amos recently unearthed the mystery of Skynet-1A, investigating who moved the United Kingdom’s oldest satellite sometime in the 1970s.

The UK's oldest satellite has relocated mysteriously and it still remains unexplained, with no clear documentation of who moved it, when it happened, or why it was done. Skynet-1A commenced its ...

Not to be mistaken for Hollywood's Skynet, the British Skynet- 1A helped facilitate secure voice, telegraph and fax links to the Royal Air Force.

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 ...