Merkwaardige flitsen die de aarde bereiken na miljarden lichtjaren te hebben afgelegd zijn nog tot daaraan toe. Maar de flits van vandaag kwam wel van héél dichtbij...!

Astronomers thought a mysterious radio burst came from deep space. It was actually a dead NASA satellite:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/astronomers-thought-a-mysterious-radio-burst-came-from-deep-space-it-was-actually-a-dead-nasa-satellite

A nanosecond-duration radio pulse originating from the defunct Relay 2 satellite:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11462

The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transient incoherent-sum survey:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.02083

Relay program:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_program

The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients Survey (CRAFT):

https://research.curtin.edu.au/cira/our-research/science/craft-survey/

Space Track:

https://www.space-track.org/

Skyfield python module:

https://rhodesmill.org/skyfield/

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