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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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The study went on to note that a cause for the pulse could have been that it was struck by a small piece of space rock, known ...

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.