A volunteer effort to revive a moribund 1970s-vintage NASA spacecraft succeeded, even as the possibility of bringing the satellite back into Earth orbit remains murky.

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Dan Leone is the NASA reporter for SpaceNews, where he also covers other civilian-run U.S. government space programs and a growing number of entrepreneurial space companies. He joined SpaceNews in 2011.Dan earned a bachelor's degree in public communications...