Image identified as by USA 224, a classified satellite

Re:Image identified as by USA 224, a classified satellite by whatshisface on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:36PM (#20890016)

>This image has a much higher definition than anything the US has admitted to in the past. Other nations probably guessed that the US has advanced satellite imaging, but now they no longer need to guess.

I think they still have to keep guessing, and here's why:

>The satellites are believed to have been the source of some imagery of the Soviet Union and China made public in 1997; images of Sudan and Afghanistan made public in 1998 related to the response to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings;[citation needed] and a 2019 photo, revealed by President Donald Trump, of a failed Iranian rocket launch[10]. (Wikipedia)

If these things were flying in 1997, presumably what's up there now is even better. That's over 22 years of time for further developments.

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Re:Image identified as by USA 224, a classified satellite by bergoid on Thursday September 05, 2019 @03:50PM (#20890112)

>If these things were flying in 1997, presumably what's up there now is even better.

The USA-224 satellite was launched in 2011 and has much better capabilities than the ones that took the 1997/1998 pictures.

The Wikipedia article you quoted [1] is about the entire KH-11 series, spanning >40 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen

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Re:Image identified as by USA 224, a classified satellite by one2zero on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:03PM (#20890205)

Another article references USA-224 launched in 2011, that passed over the site in the time frame of the incident.

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