Pretty sophisticated surveillance technology - though it's worth remembering that you can't use it to look back in time and the footprint of each satellite is p

Pretty sophisticated surveillance technology - though it's worth remembering that you can't use it to look back in time and the footprint of each satellite is probably fairly small? I imagine that number is highly classified. The info on the foreign buyers is pretty spicy, though it's generally known that UAE's high-level relationship with the USA is built upon recycling a good chunk of their oil money back into the military industrial complex (Wikileaks Cablegate said $19 billion/year as of 2010) - which is only one part of their overall Wall Street/London investment portfolio, but it does have a special significance. > "HawkEye’s advisors have helped lead a large percentage of U.S. military and intelligence organizations — including the Central Intelligence Agency’s technical surveillance programs — and have included two former members of Congress who pivoted into lobbying, Norm Coleman and Lamar Smith. And so one can only conclude that HawkEye’s surveillance support for Gulf dictatorships is not an anomaly, but rather a corporate extension of official U.S. foreign policy." UAE is also known for buying Israel's NSO Group (Pegasus etc.) surveillance tech: https://gulfstateanalytics.com/pegasus-as-a-case-study-of-evolving-ties-between-the-united-arab-emirates-and-israel/ https://gulfstateanalytics.com/pegasus-as-a-case-study-of-ev...