Australian cubesats lost in space found again with help from Dutch telescope, ham radio operators

Imagine you've spent half a decade building satellites to study a little-known part of the Earth's atmosphere. They're the first Australian-built satellites to go into space for more than a decade. You watch them launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida with great fanfare. They're deployed from the International Space Station in May. Then … nothing. Radio silence. Your efforts appear to have resulted in space junk — invisible, unresponsive bricks hurtling at 27,000km/hr, 400km above the Earth's surface. But this is not a story about loss. More

(Source: ABC Online - Jun 27)