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Casually announcing that your secret space plane has deployed even more secret mini-sats in unknown orbits is a pretty weird thing to do and it makes me wonder
by roywiggins 7y ago
Casually announcing that your secret space plane has deployed even more secret mini-sats in unknown orbits is a pretty weird thing to do and it makes me wonder why they announced it.
- derision 7y agoInternational posturing, probably
- roywiggins 7y agoI guess, but "spooky spaceplane that could be doing ~~anything~~" has its own value just by being spooky- what is it doing? Nobody knows! Except (maybe) now we do, and the next time we put it up in space there's going to be lots of questions about stealthy CubeSats. So it makes me wonder why they chose to announce it rather than keeping it vague and spooky, which is a different kind of international posturing.
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