A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the ...

Britain's first satellite is out of its place. Launched in 1969, Skynet-1A was supposed to drift over the Indian Ocean. It is ...

When people think of spaceflight’s Apollo era, it’s either a bygone period of relentless exploration or it was completely ...

A military spacecraft launched 55 years ago was moved from its orbit – and nobody is quite sure who did it, or why. In 1969 ...

In episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the ...

Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which dates back to 1969, moved to an entirely different ...

Not to be mistaken for Hollywood's Skynet, the British Skynet- 1A helped facilitate secure voice, telegraph and fax links to ...

The tabloids were amused that nobody knows who moved Skynet-1A to its current position. But there is a permanent threat of ...

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Artwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969 [BBC/Gerry Fletcher] Someone moved the UK's oldest ...

The plot concerns a super-intelligent AI system called Skynet which has taken over the world by initiating nuclear war. Amid the resulting devastation, human survivors stage ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Skynet in this context is not an artificial intelligence system set on obliterating humanity, but a series of communications satellites.