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Article: ESA: SOHO spacecraft located with ground-based radar
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- M2 Presswire
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- July 28, 1998
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M2 PRESSWIRE-28 July 1998-ESA: SOHO spacecraft located with ground-based radar (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Ground-based radio telescopes have been able to detect the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft and have found it slowly rotating near its original position in space, a potentially important step toward possible recovery of direct communications with the spacecraft.
Radio contact with SOHO, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, was interrupted on June 25, an event under review by a joint ESA/NASA investigation board.
With the encouragement of Dr. Alan Kiplinger of the National Oceanic ...