>Now when they can do it with low-orbit satellites ... Some of the better speculation I've come across suggests American ELINT satellites have deployed antenna

>Now when they can do it with low-orbit satellites ... Some of the better speculation I've come across suggests American ELINT satellites have deployed antenna spans measuring hundreds of feet. That might explain why grabbing cellular transmissions right out of the air without requiring terrestrial resources has been a thing for at least a couple decades now. When you have virtually unlimited budget, you can do a lot of things thought previously impossible.