Citizen Scientist Discovers "Lost" Re-Booted Satelite -- NASA Befuddled but Happy!

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The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, spacecraft was re-discovered in January 2018 after more than twelve years of silence. A powerhouse of magnetosphere and aurora research, the IMAGE mission was a key driver of studies of the Sun-Earth connection from its launch on March 25, 2000, until its last contact on Dec. 18, 2005.
Now a watchful citizen scientist, NASA, and a team of IMAGE scientists and engineers detected and received data from the spacecraft. Here’s how it happened.

Saturday, Jan. 20
1:39 AM EST:  Amateur astronomer Scott Tilley in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, using his home satellite detection rig, begins his nightly sky scan then goes to bed.

1. Gravity, laws of motion – Newton was a 23-yr old farm boy though he studied math at Cambridge U
2. Lightning rod – Benjamin Franklin was a science hobbyist
3. Combustion, conservation of mass – Lavoisier’s hobby was chemistry
4. Planet Uranus – Hershel was a musician and amateur astronomer
5. Group theory – Galois was a 19-yr old college student
6. Conservation of energy (1st law of thermodynamics) – Joule was a brewer not a professional scientist
7. Maxwell’s equations (in modern form), vector analysis – Heaviside was a self-taught mathematician
8. Fundamentals of rocketry – Tsiolkovsky was a recluse who did scientific research in his home
   Airplane – Wright bros. were bicycle makers tinkering with flying machines
9. Special theory of relativity, photoelectric effect – Einstein was a 26-yr old clerk but he had a degree in physics
10. Continental drift (precursor to plate tectonics) – Wegener was a meteorologist dabbling in geology
11. Electronic TV – conceptualized by 14-yr old Farnsworth, independently of other inventors
12. Computer – Zuse was a civil engineer tinkering with computing machines in 1930s