Lost in space: How NASA found a lost lunar spacecraft

Don't you just hate it when you lose something in orbit around the moon?

Silly question -- of course you do! Well, now thanks to a new technique, NASA is able to find spacecrafts, even quite small ones, that have been lost in space. But how can they do that?

In IT Blogwatch, we search the sky.

So what is going on? Rae Paoletta has some background:

Over the last few years, NASA has been having some real success locating wayward spacecraft...The agency has now done it again, locating an Indian spacecraft that lost contact with the Earth nearly eight years ago.

Cool. So what exactly did NASA find? David Szondy has that info:

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