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Re:FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone... by starpilot on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:49PM (#23873337)
A list of Lockheed Martin Space projects, headquartered in Denver. None of these are "classified":

NASA's Orion spacecraft

NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) weather satellite series

NASA's MAVEN

NASA's JUNO

NASA's OSIRIS-REx

NASA's InSight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Space#Civil_Sp...

There are a lot of space/satellite companies in the Denver area, but not many drone companies. As you may know, design of a satellite is different from design of a quadcopter drone. Satellites are launched by rockets, powered by solar panels, and orbit earth. Drones fly in the atmosphere using rotors to move air, controlled by humans on the ground. So it would seem odd to associate satellite-building engineering operations, often completely civil, with clandestine drones.

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Re:FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone... by one2know on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:53PM (#23874746)
Correct me, but Lockheed has four divisions. I just saw an ad for Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR). Just because a sensor goes on a spacecraft, doesn't mean it can't be tested on a drone.

The projects you listed may not be top secret but I'm sure they still fall under ITAR. Either way if a defense contractor was out testing stuff on drones, then I doubt they would coordinate with anyone.

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Re:FAA documents give unprecedented look into Colorado drone... by hindsightbias on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:52PM (#23874737)
I wonder if anyone has checked what satellites were where during these sightings.

Satellite detection tech of drones could be a thing...

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