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Re:Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image by nradov on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:59PM (#20849843)
The position and identity of all satellites is already public knowledge. It's impossible to hide for long in orbit. It's the satellite capabilities that are classified.
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Re:Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image by krapp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @09:09PM (#20849885)
>It's the satellite capabilities that are classified.

Welp... now the world knows the satellite's capabilities and that said satellite was probably USA-244[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224

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Re:Analysis of the Nahid-1/Safir launch failure satellite image by makomk on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:00PM (#20861431)
All the amateur satellite watchers have known that this is USA-224 and that it's a Keyhole imaging satellite pretty much since it launched, along with its exact orbit and a good idea of its imaging capabilities. That's how everyone managed to figure out how this was taken so quickly. Officially this is all highly classified, but in reality it's been public knowledge for quite a while.
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