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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by rgbrenner on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:29PM (#34757570)
That's speculation on your part. The DoD has not released any information on what the payload of any of these balloons contains.

And going by the size isn't conclusive. The ICESat-2 weather satellite is over 3000lbs, for example. So instruments larger than found on a typical weather balloon clearly do have their place in weather/climate science.

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by BobbyJo on Saturday February 11, 2023 @06:55PM (#34757792)
> That's speculation on your part. The DoD has not released any information on what the payload of any of these balloons contains.

Not true: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-balloon-carried-antenna...

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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by toomuchtodo on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:23PM (#34757991)
https://archive.is/oORem
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by rgbrenner on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:07PM (#34757885)
Thank you. I missed this somehow.
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Re:US aircraft shoots down new airborne object over Canada by throwawaymaths on Saturday February 11, 2023 @07:50PM (#34758199)
Not that it's necessarily indictatory, but this balloon had a payload the size of a small jet. By my understanding (I could be wrong) that's very uncommon for a weather balloon.
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