Okay, this is kinda cool. Some people decided to re-connect with an old, old satellite, and are doing so using as cheap as possible location, parts, etc to do it:
http://betabeat.com/2014/08/civilians-in-abandoned-mcdonalds-seize-control-of-wandering-space-satellite/
NASA is completely on-board with this, by the way, as they haven't used this old satellite in ages.
That is freakin' awesome actually!
I read about this a while back, it's pretty cool. Especially since a lot of documentation had been missing for some time