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Space & Spaceflight NASA Satellite That’s Been Dead for 57 Years Sends Mysterious Signal to Earth Relay-2 emitted a powerful fast radio burst that lasted for less than 30 nanoseconds.

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Space is a vast, weird place, and even our brightest minds are still only just scratching the surface of all it has to tell us.

This is the case with NASA’s Relay 2 satellite, which took off in 1964 until its transponders glitched. It hung dead in near-Earth orbit by 1967 and has beamed nothing down since—until now.