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Huh… I always just assumed everything is watched at all times from satellites. I didn’t realize that wasn’t the case. You never know because of the secrecy that surrounds everything in space.
I had a professor in college many many years ago who was a former navy intelligence officer and he once mentioned if people knew what the satellites from the 80s could do they’d probably revolt.
Reagan’s “Star Wars” program of weaponising satellites was abandoned because it wasn’t cost effective enough, not because the really far out sci-fi tech involved was impossible.
Ni’s team said that the US had wanted such a satellite since the Cold War, and scientists came up with numerous proposals. Due to technical challenges, “they all remain on paper by today”, the team said in the article. “Only China makes it.”
many such cases
