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> There may be privately or secretly "launched" people It's essentially impossible to covertly put or keep anything in space. Getting into space requires expen
by nkoren 9y ago
> There may be privately or secretly "launched" people
It's essentially impossible to covertly put or keep anything in space. Getting into space requires expending a rather obvious amount of energy, which there are fleets of satellites from many different nations continually watching out for. Staying in space requires being in full view of, well, nearly 8 billion people. It's not something that anyone is presently doing in secret.
Once there are a myriad of commercial ships zipping around cislunar space, the potential for covert flights to slip through the cracks becomes significantly greater. But for the present Earth-to-LEO regime -- no.
- 4ad 9y agoYou can't hide space launches but you can sure hide a person in of those classified satellites.
- gmueckl 9y agoBut resupply runs and crew return would be rather obvious.
- nkoren 9y agoIf you're happy to let them starve, then sure, although that would be a rather pointless thing to do. But if satellites were orbiting and then returning to Earth after a few days or weeks, we'd know. And if they were being resupplied by other satellites, we'd know. It's really not that mysterious up there.
- jrimbault 9y agoMost artificial satellites are rather small and crowded.