The chinese have a robotic arm in a go synchronous orbit that they are doing testing with. The second one, again, is what we call the russians launched into low earth orbit a russian nesting dalso as a primary vehicle. And then from that satellite came a connect kell vehicle. It shadowed one of our high value assets in low earth orbit for a period of time. We've, i recognize that security is important enough for us, but at the same time, how do we portray to the american people what are the threats on orbit? No one can understand what threats are in orbit, ecause you don't see them every day,. and you get
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