Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows

AProudLefty said:
All right then!

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You both are correct about the angle. When you mentioned that Google could have taken a picture of that same location with the same clarity and quality, it got me to be thinking. I thought... hmmm Google Maps usually have images that was taken from directly up, not at any angle. And you mentioned Google Maps 3D, which, technically, you may be close to being correct. The problem is that those are reconstructions of images from all over. When you rotate it, zoom in and out and whatnots, you notice the usual AI estimates and the usual computer graphics trickery. So not the same thing.

Now to the nexus of the question and the issue...

Eyeballing the image in question, you will notice that it was taken at an angle of over 45 degrees from a distance.

I am going to be conservative and say it was at 50 degrees. And the assumption that it was near the perigee which is around 400 km (around 247 miles).

So let's say it was taken at 50 degrees which the image was taken from a long distance.

Input two numbers here.

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From this we see this:

1. The location was around 476 km (295 miles) from directly below the satellite.
2. By calculation, the distance from the satellite to the location was 622 km (386 miles).

What conclusions can you draw from the information provided?
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You can do geometry.

Satellites can't hide. Astronomers both amateur and professional can find them. So, knowing about where to look is much easier to simpler do on websites than doing the math

https://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorial...ments and observations made by the satellites.

Most photographic military satellites orbit around 500 miles up, although they may be as low as 100. Most nations know this where it's important to them, and they can do stuff to avoid being photographed when they want to.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
You can do geometry.

Satellites can't hide. Astronomers both amateur and professional can find them. So, knowing about where to look is much easier to simpler do on websites than doing the math

https://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorial...ments and observations made by the satellites.

Most photographic military satellites orbit around 500 miles up, although they may be as low as 100. Most nations know this where it's important to them, and they can do stuff to avoid being photographed when they want to.
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So in other words you agree that the Google Maps imagery and the KH-11 imagery are not even comparable. Good that's settled.

Here is a live tracking of the KH-11:

https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=43941

https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43941
 
AProudLefty said:
So in other words you agree that the Google Maps imagery and the KH-11 imagery are not even comparable. Good that's settled.

Here is a live tracking of the KH-11:

https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=43941

https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43941
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I didn't say that. It depends on what information you want from the photo. Both give me what I listed much earlier. By the way, it looks more like 60 degrees if you use the light tower at the bottom of the launch pad as a reference, since it is very clearly shown...
 
guno said:
Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.

The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite.

"This picture is so exquisite, and you see so much detail," says Jeffrey Lewis, who studies satellite imagery at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. "At first, I thought it must have been taken by a drone or something."

But aerospace experts quickly determined it was photographed using one of America's most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.

Now, three years after Trump's tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has formally declassified the original image. The declassification, which came as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by NPR, followed a grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137...m-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
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Trump is the last person you want in charge of our nations secrets, intel, and the military too?!! There is a reason Trump does not receive daily security briefings, he is a loose cannon with no moral compass to speak of?!!
 
coldjoint said:
The MAGA nutjobs want to work, raise their children, and help their families without government interference. What is nuts about that?
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The nutty part is when they seek to impose their views on the other 329M+ Americans who understand the need for State and Federal government.

I support shooting down White Nationalists attacking Americans. Do you or will you be with the White Nationalists?
 
Dutch Uncle said:
The nutty part is when they seek to impose their views on the other 329M+ Americans who understand the need for State and Federal government.

I support shooting down White Nationalists attacking Americans. Do you or will you be with the White Nationalists?
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The race card from a sycophant is always nice. Those things are manufactured propaganda you are barely bright enough to repeat.:laugh:
 
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