LES 1 and 2, the Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1 and 2) were essentially identical experimental communication satellites. LES-1, launched from Cape Canaveral on 11 February 1965, it accomplished only a few of its objectives. Apparently because of miswiring of the ordnance circuitry, the satellite never left circular orbit and ceased transmitting in 1967. LES-2, the twin of LES-1 fared much better; it achieved its planned final orbit on 6 May 1965. however les 1 the American satellite, abandoned in 1967 as a piece of Space Junk has mysteriously began transmitting signals, An Amateur Radio Astronomer in North Cornwall accidentally picked up the signal and after cross checking with various lists, has identified it as LES1 built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and launched in 1965 and has been drifting out of control ever since, Phil Williams from near Bude noticed its peculiar signal and suspects its caused by it tumbling end over end. he believes every 4 seconds the solar panels become shadowed by the engine, it gives off a signal, a particularly ghostly sound as the voltage from the solar panels fluctuates’ Phil says. It is likely that the on board batteries have now disintegrated and something has caused the transmitter on 237Mhz, believed for decades to have been dead and lost to the vast emptiness of space, to mysteriously start up again.
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