Sahil's relay station was a former Federation relay station used as a courier waypoint in the 32nd century. The station was damaged long ago, with the probable cause being a main reactor breach; it was located in a debris field that contained a wrecked Constitution-class starship.
Decades before 3188, the long range sensors of the station had failed. With these sensors down, the station could only scan the nearest thirty sectors with access to more distant sectors restricted. In the surviving habitable sections of the station, the furniture and control panels were made of programmable matter.
For forty years, this station was manned by Aditya Sahil, who every day scanned a six hundred light year radius for traces of the collapsed Federation.
In 3188, Cleveland Booker led Michael Burnham to the station, looking for the warp signature of the USS Discovery. Although the search failed, Burnham brought hope to Sahil and commissioned him as an acting communications chief tasked with finding her ship. Together, as commissioned officers, Burnham and Sahil raised the flag of the Federation by planting it on a wall in Sahil's office. (DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1")
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- Sahil's relay station at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works