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Is this a thinly veiled "we see you" threat to US adversaries with satellite constellations?


No. Countries of the world have been imaging each others satellites for decades. The only thing that has changed recently is that now companies can do this commercially in an unclassified manner.

https://blog.executivebiz.com/2022/12/noaa-adds-non-earth-im...

https://www.maxar.com/non-earth-imaging


Seems unlikely given it's one of our own satellites, a "civilian" satellite, and doesn't demonstrate (I don't think?) any capabilities against satellite stealth techniques?

'Hostile' foreign governments, even the really incompetent ones, know lots of information our own government won't tell us. A lot of 'classified' stuff is more about hiding the budget from public oversight than actual "keep the other guys guessing."

I'm sure most of the other nations who want to play games with what their satellites look like / can do, are already fairly aware of the US government's capabilities in that regards. Certainly some of our terrestrial capabilities after a certain someone advertised them to the world a few years ago...


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