Post #1385904

Pretty wild investigative reporting from FT here (paywall). Iran paid a Chinese company $36M for in-orbit delivery of a new spy sat and the use of the Chinese ground station network (so they can operate it even though the in-country ground stations have largely been destroyed). FT analyzed public US Space Force tracking data of the satellite to determine that it was in the right place at the right time to image the U.S. bases that got hit shortly after each pass. https://www.ft.com/content/1fddd2cd-1294-4e9c-a17d-5ea06b399355?syn-25a6b1a6=1