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Lost In Space

This is a writeup of the OSINT challenge Lost in Space by swampCTF

Points: 25

Premise

I think OSINT challenges are stupid! If they aren’t, prove it! How far away is this? Don’t bother giving me the unit, there’s only one that you should be using in space anyways (use Astronomical Units). The flag entry is extremely forgiving just make sure you get the integer for distance right.

Challenge files:

lis.webpThis image

Observations

As we can see its a satellite. Since we want to find the specific identity of the satellite, we can try throwing it into googles reverse image search. reverse image search

Which points to it being voyager 1.

Solution

With a simple search, we can find Jet Propulsion Laboratorys site for Voyager 1s mission status here: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/#where_are_they_now

Which gives us the following flag:

swampCTF{162.72}

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