ultred ragnusen wrote:

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Can someone explain to me how you lose (and then find) a satellite?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...lost-in-space/

Since the thing is orbiting earth, why can't NASA just look up in the sky
with a telescope to find it?


** How would you identify which one it was ??

Only finding a characteristic radio signal does that.

Satellites moving across the night sky look much the same.



..... Phil