Chinese citizen charged with flying drone over key US Military, NASA launch base
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The person who walked into Mar-A-Lago might have been one?
>failure to register an aircraft not providing transportation
Lol, should have paid his 5 bux.
>and violation of national defense airspace
Ouch.
"Investigators later determined the drone likely flew 1.8 miles from the park into Vandenberg’s restricted area.
Armed with a federal warrant, agents later searched Zhou’s drone and found several photographs of the base taken from an aerial viewpoint. "
and:
"For the past three launches starting with one on Nov. 23 from Vandenberg, SpaceX has inexplicably skipped broadcasting the final minutes of the countdown and initial liftoff. Instead, the webcast started about 45 seconds after the departure.
They also provided a broad 4-hour period as the planned departure for the launch, instead of the typically smaller window that includes the actual launch time.
A source suggested the change could be connected to some sort of national security issue, but officials remained mum about the reasons. " [1]
They arrested him on his way back to China. Sounds like he might get those 4 yrs. Perhaps it's not a harsher sentence because he didn't get anything actually sensitive?
[1]https://www.noozhawk.com/chinese-citizen-arrested-for-allege...