In June 2024, a powerful radio signal shocked astronomers in Australia – a pulse so intense, it briefly describes everything in the sky.
First, scientific world discussed with the principles: a new cosmic event? Fast radio burst a deep place? A foreign message?
But the origin of the signal was stunning terrestrial.
It came from relay 2, a satellite was launched in the 1960s and is believed to have been considered passive for more than 40 years. Estimated lost, forgotten, and dead – until it spoke again.
Now, researchers are asking:
How does a silent satellite suddenly come in life?
What did this terrible transmission trigger?
And how many more “ghosts” are orbiting us, waiting to hear?
This unexpected signal has ruled the immediate conversations around space debris, satellite decay, and hidden machinery that still surrounds the Earth – quit, forgot, but perhaps not as lifeless as we thought once.
Seeing the sky.
And now, they are whisper back.