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The Last Message From Space
< Recording no. 6577. Timestamp 12 Jul 2078, 17:55:34. Data size 23.456 Gib. Recording length 13 hours 12 minutes 21 seconds. The following recording has been truncated to remove any confidential information and silent segments. The recording may contain explicit words. The contents of the recording shall remain classified until further notice. >

Hi, uh... hope my voice is clear. There might be slight distortion because of the magnetic fields leaking through the surface of the ship, but it shouldn't be an issue if you filter out the noise at 3000 Hz and its harmonics if any.

This is Sanjay Singh, my ID is AN560... Heck, screw it. I don't have so much time.

This is a message from the last crew member alive from the Deep Space Telecom mission. I assume an amateur astronomer might discover this message before ISRO so I'll brief about the mission a bit.

The DST mission's goal was to send a group of astronauts to the outer boundary of the solar system so that we are outside the influence of the strong magnetic field of the sun and perform telecommunication tests. Also, if any extraterrestrials tried to communicate with the Earth, this would be a good place to receive the signals because of the lack of interference from the sun's magnetic fields. Other objectives of the mission are classified.

I am currently about 4.02 billion miles from the Sun. The Sun is barely visible from here, it is almost as bright as any other star. Pluto is visible using the telescope onboard the spaceship.
After the end of this mission, on our way back, we were hit by an asteroid. It is probably from the Oort cloud. We had a malfunction in the LIDAR just before that and could not locate the asteroid accurately. The P - section of the spaceship was destroyed in the impact and we lost Paula and Christopher who were in the Bio Lab.
Anthony went for a spacewalk to fix the thermoelectric generator which was affected by the impact. Unfortunately a piece of debris that was left after the impact punctured his spacesuit and depressurized it. Nolan tried to go out and help Anthony, but there was too much debris outside. We lost both of them, and I am the only one alive.

I have about 362 liters of Oxygen left, which should keep me alive for about 20 hours. Life support is not working, I am in my spacesuit inside the ship. The ship's surface is badly damaged and there's no way to return to Earth now. I have no idea how I'm going to send this recording to Earth. But the primary purpose of this recording is to convey the mysterious data we received just before the asteroid impact. I believe the data has some information but we were not able to decode it. I'm hoping to find a way to send the data to ISRO so that they can decode the information. Although, now I doubt if it'll...