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Worldâs Oldest Satellite Has Been in Space for 67 Years. Engineers Want to Bring It Home

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Vanguard-1 is the second U.S. satellite launched in 1958 , the oldest artificial object orbiting Earth .

A team of researchers and engineers want to retrieve the satellite for closer inspection.

If it were to be retrieved, it would be the oldest satellite ever returned to Earth .

The researchers suggest that the satellite can be placed in a lower orbit and snagged from space, or reeled into the International Space Station .

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