NASA has confirmed that an amateur radio astronomer has accidentally discovered a satellite thought lost by the agency 12 years ago, MSN is reporting. Scott Tilley, a 47-year-old electrical engineer, living on Canada’s west coast, reportedly stumbled across a call from the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, known as IMAGE, while searching for the secret “Zuma” satellite that was launched and lost last month.
NASA made the announcement this week that the spacecraft ID coming from the solar-powered satellite indeed matched IMAGE’s.
“I really hope the scientists who built this thing and put it in space are able to repurpose this and put it back into action,” Tilley told CBC News. “And we get the benefit of all the beautiful science coming home.”
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