93 - Satellite Surveillance: The New Orbital Arms Race
The Red Line
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How to Track a Moving Object
Most satellites have two times of orbits which will be the satellite going around and around the earth usually coming over the same spot about every 90 minutes. On the other hand you have geostationary where the satellite is locked into one spot and follows that around the earth as the earth spins staying locked on and following that patch of dirt as it orbits. So with these limitations in mind using satellites how would you actually track something moving like an aircraft carrier. Having done that professionally in my time in the government it's about using multi-source multi-source integration so I would use signals intelligence spacecraft to see where that aircraft carrier is emitting and then I would use that to tip and cue over to my
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