A military communications satellite.
Launched February 11, 1965.
Built to communicate.
Shortly after launch,
it stopped responding.
For 47 years it drifted in orbit.
Presumed dead.
Amateur radio operators detected signals.
LES-1 was
broadcasting
again.
No timer.
No scheduled wake function.
Something about its decades in space
flipped a switch.
It spoke into the void
and someone,
impossibly,
heard it.