Long-Dead NASA Satellite Suddenly Lets Out Epic Blast of Energy
NASA’s experimental relay 2 satellites have died in the sky since 1967-until the summer summer, spreading a super short and very strong explosion of energy.
One report New scientistOne of the researchers who discovered the strange pulse from the Curtin University of Australia from the dead communication satellite told about the shock of finding the nearby source of the energy explosion of that nanosania.
Curtin astronomer Clancy James and his team used the Australian square square kilometer series Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope when they detected it “loud” enough to leave everything behind everything in the night sky.
Even the stranger, the signal was so close to the Earth that Askap’s radio telescopes could not focus at once.
“We’re all excited, perhaps we think we’ve discovered a new pulsar or another object.” New scientist. “This was an incredibly powerful radio pulse that had largely left everything in the sky for a very short time.”
As explained Now the new paper waiting for peer reviewCurtin researchers finally followed the source of the pulse to NASA’s derelict Relay 2 – but these discovery asked more questions from the answers.
Since the relay has died for about 60 years, the Curtin team thinks that it has either collided with an invalid communication craft that allows it to produce such a wild racket, or has been produced in an electric way for a long time.
As the astrophysicist of the University of Bristol, the University of British, said New scientistAll crowded areas in the orbit of the Earth’s orbit make it almost impossible to determine whether one of these explanations or another explanation is correct. (HE The problematic crowd of the world’s orbitIt was worth pointing out, it was not an emergency problem during the short life of Relay 2 in the mid -1960s.)
“In a world with a lot of space debris and smaller, low -cost satellites with limited protection from electrostatic discharge, this radio detection can ultimately offer a new technique to evaluate electrostatic discharge in space,” Aplin explained..
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