Washington, Agency. NASA’s decades-old satellite, which had become junk in space, has become active again. It was launched by the US space agency NASA in the 1960s.
This incident has raised new questions on the existing system of monitoring junk and satellites in space. On June 13, 2025, the ‘Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder’ radio telescope located in Australia recorded an extremely intense but momentary radio pulse in the sky.