Could this have been detected by some countries Iron Dome or incoming missile detection system ?
Bring out your dead. I’m not dead yet!
Someone zapped it as a test.
All of satellite communications is the fact that the transmitter is line of sight of the reciver, and only go through 5 miles of atmospher with water vapor. Most sats except the mapping experiments tend not to emmitt more than handheld radio (5W) and are circularly polarized so that bandwidth can be doubled by using two feedhorns.
“After both of its transmitters failed in 1967, the satellite had been silent and declared defunct...”
Good grief 58 years. Unbelievable.
“The fact that this signal remained that powerful after traveling from space to Earth makes it especially rare.”
They chose the comms frequency to not be absorbed in the ionosphere, so, whoever wrote the quoted sentence above has no idea what they’re talking about.
My guess is a micrometeorite or maybe a little larger. Satellites have been hit before.
Relay 2 what?
mark
Aliens. That’s all I’m saying.
I did it with my mind.
Just sayin’.
I want to be paid off or will do it again with SKYLAB!
Probably just somebody checking to see if NASA wanted to extend the warranty before DOGE stopped paying the phone bill.
The most recent significant solar flare to impact radio communications over the Pacific Ocean was an X1.9-class flare that erupted from sunspot region 4114 on June 19, 2025. This powerful flare triggered shortwave radio blackouts across the Pacific, including areas like Hawaii.
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Got a charge before it burned out?.
Relay 2 was heard from on June 9, 1967.
There sure was a lot going on that week:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War