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Axman
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posted 06-27-2025 07:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Axman   Click Here to Email Axman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The very early, almost antique, experimental communications satellite Relay 2 has suddenly sprung to life in a surprising way...
"We report the detection of a burst of emission over a 695.5 megahertz to 1031.5 megahertz bandwidth by the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder, ASKAP," writes a team led by astronomer Clancy James of the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Australia.

"The burst was localized through analysis of near-field time delays to the long-decommissioned Relay 2 satellite." ...

This burst could not have been the result of reflecting sunlight. Rather, the team was able to narrow it down to two possibilities: an electrostatic discharge, or a plasma discharge following an impact by a tiny piece of space rock – a micrometeoroid.

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