No, some kind of beam weapon that causes vital functions to cease - a notion that’s been about the place for, what, nine decades or so?
Have you tried searching for a link to it?
What sort of equipment and what does “talk to it” mean?
Since the OP’s be adequately answered, I’d just like to mention my dad once found a booger with a couple hairs in it in a taco he’d ordered from Taco Bell in the early 80s. He laughed and called it “Sputnik”.
And thus began my fascination in space exploration at such a tender, young age. And also my fastidious eyeballing I do to anything I order from a restaurant.
And don’t worry, he got his money back, and we went to Pizza Hut.
Theoretically, a Ham radio operator could talk the spacecraft, but he would need to know the uplink and downlink frequencies, the satellites ID number, and a command/telemetry codes. Along with authorization from the FCC, NASA, DHS, DOD, etc. Not sure it’s worth the effort, unless you can get a QSL card out of it.
Swap recipes.
Interestingly, the panic in America after Sputnik was launched led the US government, about 100 days later, to form the Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), which eventually led to connecting a bunch of computers in a network, which eventually became “the Internet”.
Nonsense, Laika returned to Earth safely and founded a surf-rock group, Laika and the Cosmonauts.