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Here's a good associated reddit comment analyzing the resolution of the satellite. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_trump_tweets_sen

Here's a good associated reddit comment analyzing the resolution of the satellite. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_trump_tweets_sensitive_surveillance/eymf0w0/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_... https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_trump_tweets_sensitive_surveillance/eymxym2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/cxmfjd/president_... tldr; potentially 15-20cm resolution taken on this angle. And if it's the KH-11 (or later advanced kennen/kh-12), it is the first image since 1984 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Janeskh11leakedphoto.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Janeskh1...)

makomk 7y ago
It sounds like, from the description of the previous image and non-classified information about KH-11 such as that released when two surplus satellites were released to NASA for possible conversion to telescopes, this pretty much just matches up with what we already knew about its capabilities. If amateur satellite-watchers hadn't already figured out this was a Keyhole satellite and tracked its orbit closely this might have given that away and helped Iran stage their launches to avoid its watchful eyes, but as it is I don't think any great secrets are being revealed here.