And even then, only in geosynchronous orbit, way too far away for photo surveillance. Spy satellites are in LEO and orbit the earth v roughly once an hour--they

And even then, only in geosynchronous orbit, way too far away for photo surveillance. Spy satellites are in LEO and orbit the earth v roughly once an hour--they dont "hover" at all. (In fact, they're passing over the ground at ~10km per second, so they end up using very fancy tracking optics to prevent motion blur. The best can apparently image lines in a parking lot. And to top off the technological insanity, some built during the Cold War did all this with ANALOG FILM, which was then dropped via a reentry capsule and caught in midair by a support plane while parachuting back to earth.)