Skynet-1A: Why did the UK's first satellite end up thousands of miles from where it should have been?

BBC/Gerry FletcherArtwork: The half-tonne Skynet-1A satellite was launched in November 1969Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast to relay communications for British forces.When the spacecraft ceased working a few years later,…