Newest spy satellite NROL-71 may be going to a very particular orbit

satobs.org

7 pointsrobszumski3 comments

This tweet contains a representation of this orbit: https://twitter.com/coastal8049/status/1070926967577358336

What's interesting is that it may indicate that multiple angles of shadows vs the usual overhead at X hours in the morning is useful. Machine learning on imagery perhaps?

Thanks for posting this. I had never seen the http://www.satobs.org/ site before. Looks like I'm going down a rabbit hole for a few hours now :)

It's a bit over my head as I don't observe anything, but it does have some interesting content on it.

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