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"Let's look for spy satellites / orbiters" was an "application" I wondered about. My second thought about this was: maybe the US (and possibly other countries)
by kkylin 1y ago
"Let's look for spy satellites / orbiters" was an "application" I wondered about. My second thought about this was: maybe the US (and possibly other countries) already have something like this, but classified?
- dekhn 1y agoThe US already has a very sophisticated system for this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillan...
- adgjlsfhk1 1y agonote that lots of the lsst funding is from the DOE. part of the value for the government might be tracking Chinese satellites
- ianburrell 1y agoThere is the Space Surveillance Telescope [1] in Australia. It is similar military telescope for space tracking. It is only 3.5m compared to LSST 8m. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Surveillance_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Surveillance_Telescope