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How it was tracked back to USA 224: https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nahid1_launch_failure_analysis.ipynb https://github.com/cbassa/sat
by runlevel1 7y ago
How it was tracked back to USA 224:
https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nahid1_launch_failure_analysis.ipynb https://github.com/cbassa/satellite_analysis/blob/master/nah...
- makomk 7y agoThe really astounding part of all this is that hobbyists have been monitoring the exact orbits of all the US spy satellites for years. They know exactly where they're overhead and when. That kind of capability used to be something that only a handful of states had, and now people just do it from their homes and post it to the internet.
- nexuist 7y ago"Who watches the watchers?" Civilian space nerds!
- smudgymcscmudge 7y ago“but who watched them?” CIA, and we’ve gone full circle.
- text_exch 7y agohttps://xkcd.com/1910/ https://xkcd.com/1910/
- yread 7y agoIndians used this knowledge to hide their first nuclear test at Pokhran from US spy satellites https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19990517-book-extract-from-the-book-weapons-of-peace-780871-1999-05-17 https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/st...
- quotz 7y agoOh wow this is the coolest thing I’ve read in a while
- jcims 7y agoFor a bit more corroboration of that analysis, this is what SunCalc says the sun direction would be at that time (9:44:20 UTC, 14:14:20 PM local time) pinned at the base of what (i believe) is that specific launch pad. Elevation of the satellite will affect the apparent angle some, but this is pretty convincing: https://imgur.com/bSDLBmI https://imgur.com/bSDLBmI