93 - Satellite Surveillance: The New Orbital Arms Race
The Red Line
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The Role of Suborbital Observation in Cost Cutting
There still is a role for suborbital observation. But if cost cutting is the new name of the game, where do things like these Chinese surveillance balloons that we just saw shot down over the United States factor in? What's their use here? It's fascinating, isn't it? But yeah, I mean, it had kit on it, which could intercept communications of all different sorts and pinpoint where they came from. So you have just got a small piece of that jigsaw with which to make your picture.
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