2019/09/08

Amateurs identify U.S. spy satellite behind President Trump's tweet

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/09/02/npr-amateurs-identify-u-s-spy-satellite-behind-president-trumps-tweet


meant to publish this the other day.



The image almost certainly came from a satellite known as USA 224, according to Marco Langbroek, a satellite-tracker based in the Netherlands. The satellite was launched by the National Reconnaissance Office in 2011. Almost everything about it remains highly classified, but Langbroek says that based on its size and orbit, most observers believe USA 224 is one of America's multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellites.