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Yup. Easy to do for most adversary nation-states as well, but the NRO still doesn't allow the SpaceX livestream to follow stage 2.
by rrmm 6y ago
Yup. Easy to do for most adversary nation-states as well, but the NRO still doesn't allow the SpaceX livestream to follow stage 2.
- _Microft 6y agoMaybe it's possible to detect radio echoes off the rocket exhaust trail (passively) like it is possible to do with meteors [0][1] and roughly tell where the second stage is (just for the sake of doing it this way). [0] https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagation/meteor-scatter-burst-communications/meteors-trails-radio-signals.php https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/antennas-propagat... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications
- ceejayoz 6y agoYeah, over-classification is definitely a thing. I suspect they don't want close-up video imagery of the payloads out there, either.