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US satellite that was part of the Lincoln project Experimental Satellite “and considered to be out of order in 1967 year, began inexplicably transmitting signals to Earth. Lost half a century ago in space, an aircraft definition cannot “come to life”, because it has long been discharged battery, but it was not equipped with solar panels. Bye scientists cannot find what was happening rational explanations.
This artificial satellite was one of nine devices, developed in 1965-1976 by Lincoln Laboratory staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The devices “LES1” – “LES9” were intended for testing advanced at that time satellite communication technologies. It is noteworthy that the “vote” after a few decades the LES1 satellite is the first of this series. He was running Americans in 1965, flew a given orbit and set off drift into space. Scientists tracked his movement for two years, and then the battery ran out at the device, and experts put on their brainchild of the cross.
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Launches of devices “LES2” – “LES4” also failed. Problems with booster rockets have led to the planned orbit was not deduced by any of these devices. Satellites only reached a transitional orbit (where they are for sure remained until now), maintaining communication with the Earth exactly as long until their batteries run out of charge.
Launch of the satellites “LES5”, “LES6”, “LES8” and “LES9” were successful, and “LES7” was never launched because laboratories at that time drastically cut funding. Program in eventually closed, but representatives of the institute claimed that they managed to achieve considerable success during this project.
Why fly away to plow the starry space “LES1” transmits to Earth signals at a frequency of two hundred and thirty-seven megahertz? By turning on the video below, you can hear this beep yourself. According to scientists, confuse it with cosmic noise impossible.
American experts generally believe that satellite batteries and his other equipment, created long before the invention integrated circuits and microprocessors, should have long been irrevocably fail. However, the facts speak of the opposite: the device is still more or less functionally.
To questions about what caused such “survivability” of the satellite, scientists laugh it off that “LES1”, they say, was picked up and repaired by aliens. But in every joke, as you know, there is some truth …
