Amateur Astronomer Finds NASA Satellite Long Given Up For Dead
Scott Tilley was searching for a secret U.S. spy satellite when he found the spacecraft. "The odds are extremely good that it's alive," said a mission co-investigator.
NASA's IMAGE spacecraft spent five years studying the Earth's magnetosphere, but when its signal blinked off in 2005, the space agency called it a mission and moved on.
Twelve years later, enter amateur astronomer Scott Tilley.
Tilley was scanning the this month after launch from Cape Canaveral by a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.
