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Current technology: [1,2]. There is an interesting note in [3], about how one of these satellites is being stalked by a Russian satellite, which is trying to l
by femto 6y ago
Current technology: [1,2]. There is an interesting note in [3], about how one of these satellites is being stalked by a Russian satellite, which is trying to learn more about the US satellite.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office#GEOINT_imaging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-245 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-245
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Wikipedia has an image from one of the above
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224#/media/File:2019-08-29_Safir_launch_failure.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224#/media/File:2019-08-29...
Estimated resolution is 10cm or better (the 10cm/pixel image is a photo of a printout, not the original). Distance is estimated to be 382km.